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A DEFINITIVE REPLY
TO EVOLUTIONIST
PROPAGANDA
can give man the characteristics that make him human. It is God,
the Lord of all the worlds, Who gives man his soul, creates him out
of nothing, and makes him different from all other living things by
breathing His spirit into him.
An Important But Ignored Subject:
IT IS NOT THE EYE WHICH SEES
Although an important scientific truth is expressed in the BBC
documentary, that truth is not emphasized in the way it should be.
The documentary says: "Our eyes are only a window. It is our brain
which sees around us. The eye merely forms the first stage."
This phrase, which one encounters in biology textbooks begin-
ning in middle school, is actually very important, containing as it
does a secret which can entirely alter a person's way of looking at
the world.
People imagine they see the world with their eyes. The fact is,
however, that the eyes and the cells which comprise them are
merely responsible for turning the light reaching them from the out-
side, via chemical processes, into electrical signals. These electrical
signals later arrive at the visual center at the back of the brain,
which is where the image we see takes shape. For instance, some-
one reading these lines at this moment sees them in the visual cen-
ter in the back of his brain. In other words, it is not actually the eyes
that see. So, who is it that sees the image in the visual center and
reads these words? Who is it that watches with excitement, joy, or
sorrow the bright, colorful, three-dimensional image which forms
within the darkness of the brain?
The same question also applies to the senses of hearing, taste,
smell, and touch. Even as one listens to one's favorite song, it is not
one's ears that are doing the hearing. Their task is merely to collect
sound waves. The cells in the ears turn the sound waves reaching
them into electrical signals, and forward them to the hearing center
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