For the Sake of the Myth: The Quest for Evidence of Evolution
Peace be upon you
Let me tell you, dear viewers
the story of those who want
to prove their falsehood
in any way possible!
How miserable they seem;
moving from one failure to another
while being chased by the truth!
But don't worry
we won't share their misery
Rather, there's a lot of humor
in their story, so join us
In the last two episodes
we saw how Darwin founded the
elements of his myth on the edge
of a crumbling precipice;
upon which his supporters continued
to build, until it collapsed
into more contradictions;
with mind and science
It is not a matter of corrected mistakes
or bridged gaps, but of expanded cracks
So, metaphorically:
'A goat, even if it flies!'
The modifications only made the theory
more fictional and more
contradictory to scientific discoveries
They say,
"But this theory has evidence.
And those who came after Darwin
gathered more evidence."
Let's take a look
at this alleged 'evidence'
First: Fossils
According to Darwin, living organisms
slowly and gradually evolved
from one or a few common ancestors
It follows that we should continue
to see this gradualism
However, in reality
we find great differences
and isolating boundaries!
For example:
ًWhere are the living transitional forms
between reptiles and birds?
They do not exist nowadays
Darwin admitted that this
contradicted his imaginings
so he came up with an alternate fantasy:
that gradualism and transitional forms
existed in the past
so their fossils and petrified remains
must be underground
There is no justification for this
evasion and about-turn from the surface
of Earth to below its ground
But let's go underground with Darwin
What did Darwin imagine that we
would find?
He imagined that we would find fossils
of primitive simple-structured organisms
in the Earth's deep layers
and, as we ascended through
the earth's rock layers
we'd find fossils of extinct creatures
with increasingly complex structures
representing the transitional stages
This would continue until we find
in the top layers, fossils of organisms
that still exist today; in reality
Darwin scribbled these fantasies
in his books
and predicted innumerable fossils
of extinct transitional forms
buried in the rock layers
To illustrate:
This simple organism
from which life supposedly started
would be found in the deep layers
Each point on this line represents
an extinct organism
Here's one; here's another
and another, and so on...
Here's an advanced organism:
the dinosaur, for example
but as it became extinct long ago
we'd only find it in very deep rock layers
In the middle, we'd find
the innumerable transitional forms
between dinosaurs and birds
all the way up
until we see the organisms
living with us today; in the higher layers
and so on...
These were Darwin's dreams!
This was what he hoped to see in order
to claim that his theory was correct
But what did Darwin actually find?
Everything he found
contradicted his dreams!
First: A large number
of extremely complex organisms
appearing suddenly in the deep layer
known as the Cambrian Period
They even call this sudden emergence:
The Cambrian explosion
No candidate
for the 'simpler' common ancestor
—per Darwin's dreams—
appeared
Rather organisms appeared suddenly!
In order to realize the complexity
of the Cambrian organisms
contemplate the eye
of the Trilobite fossil
which is made up
of hundreds of sophisticated tiny eyes
that work collectively
Second: Darwin found that transitional
forms were not 'innumerable'
as his myth stipulated
Rather, they were non-existent!
So the evidence was piling up
against Darwin's assumptions
Was Darwin unaware of this?
No, he was fully aware
Some people think that these
discoveries came after Darwin
while, in fact
they were during his lifetime
Darwin spoke extensively about
the Cambrian explosion organisms
He also reflected on the absence
of transitional forms, saying,
"But, as by this theory, innumerable
transitional forms must have existed,
why do we not find them embedded
in countless numbers
in the crust of the earth?"
So, did that wake you up
from your dreams, Darwin?
No!
The myth must continue!
Instead of titling his confessions:
The Fossil Record Shatters My Dreams
Just Like The Absence
of Living Transitional Forms,
he titled it (in his book) as:
"On the Imperfection
of the Fossil Record"
Imperfection?!
What if we discover
any fossil, after that;
shouldn't we, logically
explain it in accordance with
the unassailable principles
that we already know, Darwin?
Apparently not!
As if Darwin told his successors,
Look for anything open to interpretation
and use it to distort
these unassailable principles
Fetch any straw to block the sunlight
from people's eyes
And, indeed
Darwin's loyal soldiers rushed
to seek the alleged transitional forms
ignoring the fact
that their teacher's myth
requires INNUMERABLE transitional forms!
So, they looked everywhere
for 'goats that fly'; even a single goat!
They moved from one failure to another
Every transitional form
they claimed to have found
was demonstrated
(through peer-reviewed studies)
to be a mistake or misinterpretation!
Just like the story of the bird-like
dinosaur:
the 'Archaeoraptor',
'Coelacanth', 'Tiktaalik',
the skull of 'Piltdown Man',
the 'Java Man' bones,
Then, the 'Lucy' fossil,
the 'Ida' fossil,
the 'Ardipithecus' fossil,
and many more...
Their mindset: Ignore all evidence
for the Creator in this universe and
"...drown it out so that you may prevail."
(Quran Translated Meaning 41:26)
All of these fossils and others
as we'll show in detail, Allah willing
turned out to be either intentional
forgeries or misrepresentations
They were exposed
one after the other
but only after every lie was used
to revive the myth; for a while
So that you don't get depressed
by this miserable scene
and stories of failure
we'll share some comedic scenes
performed by the 'stars'
of the metaphorical series:
'Darwin's Myth'!
In 1922, the myth-lovers found
a molar in Nebraska, USA
Yes, a molar!
They considered it important
evidence for evolution
From the molar, they drew
a human-like creature,
claimed that it lived
6 million years ago,
and gave it a scientific name
"Science" magazine published
a 'scientific' peer-reviewed article
on this 'great discovery'
Alas, 5 years later
it was discovered to be a pig's tooth!
"Science" published a retraction
of its previous article
on this 'great discovery'!
Then, in 1979
the myth-lovers found a bone
which they hailed as evidence!
They claimed it was a clavicle
of a human-like ancestor
Alas, it turned out to be
part of a dolphin's rib
as published in "New Scientist"
4 years later!
Then, in 1984
three myth zealots found
a skull fragment
which excited them greatly!
Finally, some real evidence!
They etched —around this fragment—
a human-like
creature that they claimed
to have died at 17 years old
and to have lived 900,000
to 1.6 million years ago
They called it 'Orce Man'
They designated a place for him
in the so-called evolutionary ladder
and the discovery was called the
'Discovery of the Century'!
Moreover, a press conference
attended by VIPs
was held to celebrate!
Alas!
They celebrated too soon!
It turned out to be
the skull of a baby donkey!
They became the laughing stock
of satirical magazines!
So the myth-lovers wander
around plains and mountains
and search dumpsters and cemeteries
looking for their roots
in everything beneath their feet:
pig molars, dolphin ribs,
and donkey skulls
just like hallucinating idiots
who see shiny spit as a coin!
All that for the sake of the Myth!
This, in short
is the story of the fossil evidence
I remind you, dear viewers
that this episode is a quick review
Full details will be provided
in the coming episodes, Allah willing
The second type of evidence is:
Signs of chance in 'useless organs'
In his book, "The Descent of Man"
which he published after
"On the Origin of Species"
Darwin mentioned many examples
of 'useless' atrophied organs
in the human body
as evidence for evolution
He called them vestigial organs
He reasoned that, as long as
Man came by multiple chance events
then chance must have left
a footprint on its products:
i.e. evolutionary vestiges
and remnants of animal ancestors;
that no longer have a function
in the human body
With this, Darwin opened a door
for his supporters to rush through
They scrutinized the human body
and inspected it, part by part
Looking for what?
Looking for errors!
The Darwinist German anatomist
Robert Wiedersheim
in 1893
published his list of 86 'useless'
vestigial organs in the human body
You'll realize, dear viewer
the degree of their ignorance
—which made them a laughing-stock—
when you know this list included
the endocrine glands
such as the pituitary
and pineal glands!
Because, at that time
they knew nothing
about endocrine glands and hormones
They committed the fallacy
of arguing from ignorance:
We don't know the function
of these organs in the human body
Therefore, these organs have no function
and they must have evolved
unintentionally!
It's the same methodology
they used with the fossil record:
Ignoring unassailable and
clear facts
The perfection and design ingenuity
in the human body is disregarded
and they run around
seeking straws to cling to
However, science has discovered
important functions
for these 'useless' organs;
one after another!
So, the coccygeal vertebrae
isn't useless
nor is the appendix superfluous
and the pituitary gland controls
most of the hormones in the body and
those who described it as vestigial
couldn't have lived without it
Then, they set out seeking
'useless organs' in other creatures and
making wild deductions on the assumption
that 'nature' only retains vital organs:
a circular deduction that starts
with the premise they want to prove;
while we believe in a Creator Who
instilled beauty in His Creation
Even if some parts don't support
survival or mating, they are signs
—for those sound of mind—
that such beauty requires a Creator
Yet, they are still looking everywhere
—even in the finely-tuned physical
constants of the universe—
as if they are saying,
"O blind randomness
guide us to your footprints
in any corner of this universe!"
The response comes to them from the
Book of Allah, which can be translated as,
"...So look again: do you see any flaws?
Then look again and again.
Your sight will return frustrated
and weary." (Quran 67:3-4)
So... continue your fruitless search
for faults in creation!
They failed underground
and above ground
so they started examining the genome;
hoping to find what they seek
For me, personally
one of the clearest proofs
for Allah's greatness
comes from pondering the marvelous
mechanisms in the cell nucleus;
in the genetic material
However —just like Quranic signs—
cosmic signs are only relevant
for the believers:
"As for those who have attained faith,
it increases them
in faith and they rejoice.
But, as for those in whose hearts
is disease, it has only
increased them in evil..."
(QTM 9:124-125)
The Myth lovers announced,
"There! Found it!
Only a small part of the DNA
includes active genes
while most of it is useless junk
—without a function—
just remnants of random evolution!
If a wise creator exists
why would He create junk DNA?!"
Then, the many indispensable
functions of this so-called 'junk' DNA
and its 'hidden treasures'
were discovered
(as termed by Prof. Ewan Birney
the leader of the ENCODE
consortium of 400 geneticists)
So, it seems that the 'junk'
was in the perceptions of Darwinists
and their attitudes towards
Allah's fine-tuned Creation!
Dawkins said,
"I have noticed that there are some
creationists who are jumping on it
because they think that's awkward
for Darwinism, and quite
the contrary of course; it's exactly
what a Darwinist would hope for."
Dawkins tells you
that it's exactly what Darwinism
would hope for
It's pigheadedness;
for the sake of the myth!
We will discuss, in the coming episodes
Allah willing, in detail
their false claims about DNA
such as the similarity of DNA
in humans and chimpanzees
and their other lies
so that you know
how they abuse science,
the mind, and themselves;
for the sake of the myth
The fourth evidence, dear viewers
that Darwin relied greatly upon
was the presence of a few superficial
morphological and anatomical similarities
between some organisms
His view of similarities
as evidence of common ancestry
is neither a scientific nor logical
One argument that invalidates this
as evidence, is the extreme resemblance
between placental and marsupial mammals
A placental mammal is one
whose fetus completes its growth
in the placenta of the uterus
while the fetus of a marsupial mammal
completes its growth
in an external pouch;
like the kangaroo
According to Darwinists
marsupials were separated from
placentals in ancient ages
and each developed
significantly different body systems,
pregnancies, and lactation mechanisms
So, the placental squirrel
for example
is more closely related in classification
and placement on the phylogenetic tree
to the whale, elephant, deer, and
all other well-known placental mammals;
than it is to the marsupial squirrel
while a marsupial squirrel
is more related
to kangaroos and koalas, than to
the placental squirrel that looks like it
The same can be said about
the wolf, mole, wombat, and many other
placentals and marsupials
What does this mean?
It means that morphological
and anatomical similarities
don't have any evolutionary indication!
Thus, animals that look alike
may differ greatly
in their physiological systems
and pregnancies and
those that are physiologically similar
may differ greatly in appearance
What did the Darwinists do
to get out of this dilemma?
They proposed the
'convergent evolution model'
also known as 'parallel evolution'
Fancy names, aren't they?
Once delirium is given a name
it gains scientific legitimacy!
But wait a minute, this blasts your
theory from its foundation
Not at all!
We've modified the
theory and given it a name
in the style of:
Give it a name and let it go!
Keep this style in mind
because you'll see it repeated often
A phenomenon that
invalidates your theory?
No problem! Give the theory
a new name, so the audience
feels that
you're aware of this phenomenon,
you don't see that it presents
any threat to your theory,
and you've amended the theory
and found a solution
While —in reality— you didn't
find a solution; you only
invented a new false name
for the sake of the myth!
So, what is the concept of
convergent evolution?
It is a funny idea stating
that the random mutations
which created placental organisms
were repeated with the same
randomness and details
to create marsupial organisms
Perfectly organized random events;
even though they are supposedly countless!
NO COMMENT!
So when they tell you,
"Modern discoveries are challenges
and the theory of evolution
can be adapted to include them
without faulting the general structure
of the theory,"
they're referring to such changes:
Changes in the eye of the needle
of the myth
to squeeze the whole universe inside it!
The fifth proof
is embryological similarity
In 1868, the German zoologist
Ernst Haeckel published drawings
—which he claimed to have observed
under the microscope—
of human and animal embryos
allegedly showing great similarities
in the early stages of pregnancy
Darwin rejoiced in this discovery
and he credited Haeckel for
spreading the concept of evolution
across Germany
as mentioned in "Encyclopedia Britannica"
Besides the fact that similarity
doesn't indicate common ancestry
in any way;
lies are short-lived!
Haeckel was not the only one
with a microscope
so other scientists questioned
Haeckel's drawings
and created a stir around them
until he was forced
in 1909, to admit
in his letter to "Allegemeine Zeitung"
that there was
forgery in his drawings!
Even during his confession
Haeckel lied
He said that a small percentage
of his drawings —6-8%— were indeed fake
but that he did it to bridge the gaps
because of the impossibility
of obtaining complete
and accurate images for the embryos
The irony here is that
one and a half centuries have passed
since Haeckel's exposed lie
yet, his drawings are still
relentlessly recycled
in thousands of schools, universities,
and science books;
shamelessly!
"Biology" by Raven and Johnson
"Biology" by Starr and Taggart
"Evolutionary Biology" by Futuyma
and many more!
Even the Darwinist Stephen Gould
in his book, "Natural History", says
"We do, I think, have the right
to be both astonished and ashamed
by the century of mindless recycling
that has led to the persistence of
these drawings in a large number,
if not a majority, of modern textbooks."
These are the same books and references
that issue new editions
every year or two
in an effort
to keep their information
'up to date'!!!
In our courses, it's considered
a breach of scientific integrity
to teach students the therapeutic
guidelines published in 2015, for example
if a more recently-published
edition is available;
while these people cling to
a stinking lie that was exposed
a long time ago
all for the sake of the myth!
We are entitled to ask:
If evolution was truly the secret of life
why can't its advocates find
anything other than lies
and regurgitated falsehoods
to support it?!
Why do they follow the recommendation
of Joseph Goebbels
the Nazi propaganda minister,
"If you repeat a lie often enough,
people will believe it, and
if you lie even more, you'll even
start believing it yourself!"
When some Muslims repeat
—in a parrot-like fashion—
that there are thousands
of proofs for evolution
they are referring to such 'proofs'
However —for the sake of
scientific integrity—
there is one remaining area
of discovery
that is in line with Darwinism:
Discoveries in Photoshop and
innovations in Hollywood cinematography
which the Darwinists resort to;
just as a loser resorts to hallucinogens
to allow him to live
in his illusionary world!
'Discoveries' which weave
—from a few bones— fantasy creatures
with fat, flesh, eyes, hair,
and facial features
Then, these fantasy creatures
are used to normalize
the myth in the media
and school curricula
to make you feel
that you are facing solid historical facts
Imagine a young man looking for a girl
with specific features
whom he cannot find
Then, after years of searching
he goes back home,
draws the girl of his dreams,
and flirts sorrowfully with the drawing!
The task of these people is harder
because the girl of their dreams
is 'a flying goat'!
They resorted to Photoshop
after everything in the universe
screamed in their faces,
"LOSERS!"
They couldn't prop up the collapsed legs
of Darwin's table with its heavy load:
The load of all living creatures!
They tried —in vain— to turn the
observations from the universe
that were loaded onto the table
into legs to support the table
but evidential science slaps their wrists
every time and tells them,
"Don't even try, losers!
These observations are against you;
not in your favor!"
Dear viewer, you might say,
"If the myth of evolution
has failed miserably
in front of
the most obvious universal truth:
that living things have
an All-Knowing Creator;
why do many people
believe in it?"
This will be the topic of our
upcoming episodes
Let's keep in mind that the evolution myth
is an example of a larger issue
It provides the model answer
for the question:
How can pseudoscience missionaries
brainwash people's minds
to reject faith in the most obvious truth
and accept the most ridiculous of myths?
So, dear viewers, stay tuned
May the peace of Allah be upon you!