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HARUN YAHYA

cause of something that we can't do in electronics." Bernstein says.
"It's this notion of massive parallelism." Meaning one bit of data can
spread to 100,000 other neurons, he said. 2
As well as this superior design, the brain also functions most
productively. Martin S. Banks, a professor of optometry and psy-
chology at the University of California Berkeley, says, "The brain is
efficient in that it doesn't waste energy maintaining information
that it will not likely need in real life." 3
As we have seen, there is a phenomenal design in the arrange-
ment and functioning of the brain. Pinker and other Darwinists,
however, suggest that this order within the brain came about by
chance mutations. They claim that atoms bereft of all capacity for
thought established the magnificent design in the human brain
solely as the result of a long "evolutionary process" based on nothing
more than chance. This claim has no scientific foundation and is a vi-
olation of reason. Genetic research has shown that there is no ques-
tion of mutations' adding any information to the genes, and that if
they do have any effect, they are always damaging to the organism.
Not one artificial mutation carried out in laboratories has ever
brought any benefit to a single living thing. Embryos subjected to
mutation have been seen to be born dead or crippled. It is clear that
mutation could never bring about the "order" within the brain. Such
a thing is as impossible as turning an electronic calculator into the
most complex computer in the world by smashing it with a hammer.
The claim that behavior is to do with nerve cells and the con-
nections between them is also a dogma. Neuron activity concerning
behavior has been detected in the brain, yet no explanation has been
offered which might reduce consciousness, the source of all behav-
ior, to the brain.
Behavior consists of the choices of action taken by man to adapt
to his environment or to adapt that environment to himself. The
possibility of such behavior is dependent upon his having knowl-
edge, in other words consciousness, of his environment.
Consciousness, however, is one of the major dilemmas facing mate-

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