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134 CONFESSIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS

sued the following statement regarding the illogical nature of evolu-

tionists’ claims on the subject:
For example, the [alleged] evolution of Man is said to have been driven
by improvements in posture, brain size, and the coordination between
hand and eye, which led to technological achievements such as fire, the
manufacture of tools, and the use of language. But such scenarios are sub-
jective. They can never be tested by experiment, and so they are unscien-
tific. They rely for their currency not on scientific test, but on assertion
and the authority of their presentation. 342

Man is an en ti ty with a soul be stowed on him by Allah, and who is able to think, re joice, feel ex -
cite ment, pro duce ideas, and un der stand the con cepts of hon or, re spect, love, friend ship, loy al -
ty, hon esty and sin cer i ty. According to ma te ri al ists, how e ver, all these sen ti ments are pro ducts
of the neu rons, or nerve cells, in side the brain and chem i cal re ac tions be tween them. Yet this
claim is nei ther sci en tif ic nor log i cal. In or der not to have to ac cept the ex is tence of a su pra-ma -
te ri al be ing, ma te ri al ists pre fer an idea that's to tal ly in com pat i ble with rea son and log ic. The fact
is that all these prop er ties, which dis tin guish hu man be ings from oth er liv ing things, are ac tu al ly
func tions of the soul.