Page 797 - Atlas of Creation Volume 1

Harun Yahya

CHAPTER 10

THE MOLECULAR IMPASSE OF EVOLUTION

n previous sections of this book, we have shown how the fossil record invalidates the theory of evolu-

tion. In point of fact, there was no need for us to relate any of that, because the theory of evolution col-
I lapses long before one gets to any claims about the evidence of fossils. The subject that renders the
theory meaningless from the very outset is the question of how life first appeared on earth.

When it addresses this question, evolutionary theory claims that life started with a cell that formed by
chance. According to this scenario, four billion years ago various lifeless chemical compounds underwent a
reaction in the primordial atmosphere on the earth in which the effects of thunderbolts and atmospheric
pressure led to the formation of the first living cell.
The first thing that must be said is that the claim that inanimate materials can come together to form life

is an unscientific one that has not been verified by any experiment or observation. Life is only generated
from life. Each living cell is formed by the replication of another cell. No one in the world has ever succeeded
in forming a living cell by bringing inanimate materials together, not even in the most advanced laborato-

ries.
The theory of evolution claims that a living cell-which cannot be produced even when all the power of
the human intellect, knowledge and technology are brought to bear-nevertheless managed to form by
chance under primordial conditions of the earth. In the following pages, we will examine why this claim is
contrary to the most basic principles of science and reason.

The Tale of the "Cell Produced by Chance"

If one believes that a living cell can come into existence by coincidence, then there is nothing to prevent
one from believing a similar story that we will relate below. It is the story of a town:
One day, a lump of clay, pressed between the rocks in a barren land, becomes wet after it rains. The wet
clay dries and hardens when the sun rises, and takes on a stiff, resistant form. Afterwards, these rocks, which

also served as a mould, are somehow smashed into pieces, and then a neat, well shaped, and strong brick ap-
pears. This brick waits under the same natural conditions for years for a similar brick to be formed. This goes
on until hundreds and thousands of the same bricks have been formed in the same place. However, by
chance, none of the bricks that were previously formed are damaged. Although exposed to storm, rain,

wind, scorching sun, and freezing cold for thousands of years, the bricks do not crack, break up, or get
dragged away, but wait there in the same place with the same determination for other bricks to form.
When the number of bricks is adequate, they erect a building by being arranged sideways and on top of
each other, having been randomly dragged along by the effects of natural conditions such as winds, storms,

or tornadoes. Meanwhile, materials such as cement or soil mixtures form under "natural conditions", with

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