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HARUN YAHYA

Evolutionists maintain that mind emerged through evolution,
but they have no means of experiencing what a primitive level of in-
telligence is like, nor of replicating the conditions in the supposed
evolutionary process. Despite his being an evolutionist, Henry Gee,
editor of Nature magazine, well known for its evolutionist content,
openly admits the unscientific nature of such claims:
For example, the evolution of Man is said to have been driven by im-
provements 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
subjective. They can never be tested by experiment, and so they are
unscientific. They rely for their currency not on scientific test, but on
assertion and the authority of their presentation. 61

Besides being unscientific, such scenarios are also logically in-
valid. Evolutionists maintain that thanks to the intellect that suppos-
edly emerged through evolution, the ability to
use tools emerged and developed, thanks to
which, in turn, intelligence developed. Yet
such a development is possible only when
human intelligence is already present.
According to this account, the question of
whether technology or mind first emerged
through evolution goes unanswered.
Phillip Johnson, one of the most effective
critics of Darwinism, writes this on the sub-
ject: Phillip Johnson
A theory that is the product of a mind can
never adequately explain the mind that produced the theory. The
story of the great scientific mind that discovers absolute truth is satis-

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