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Peace be upon you.
In an article by the American writer Noam Chomsky entitled: "Ten strategies of manipulation by the media," the writer mentioned ten means that the media uses to wash the minds of the people, and he mentioned among them: (Address them as children).
This is what the followers of superstition do when they talk about the transformation of one being into another. As if living beings are a magical toy, which can be reshaped to produce another form. As if it is a drawing with a pen on paper, or a three-dimensional graphic "3D Graphic" that works with stretching here and shortening there, with a few clicks on the mouse, then behold, we have another being, without any consideration for what these external shape changes require in terms of huge changes in the vital organs and genetic encoding.
Let's take a simpler example, less complex, we will not talk about the transformation of one type of creature into another completely different in its vital organs, but about a simple change in the same creature, the giraffe whose neck is supposed to have stretched over the generations. Darwin and his followers believed that its neck stretched as a result of it stretching its neck to eat leaves, and Darwin's followers knew that this is a myth, so they said instead: but through random mutations; random mutations lengthened its neck and the story ended.
Let's see - brothers! - what does this stretching require in terms of changes at the level of the body's systems? And let's take only the heart and blood vessels. The distance between the heart and the top of the giraffe's head reaches 3 meters, - meaning close to the height of a floor; - therefore, the giraffe's heart must be very strong to be able to pump blood to this distance against gravity, and it is indeed so; the weight of its heart can exceed 11 kilograms, the length of its heart is about 60 centimeters, and the thickness of its walls is 7.5 centimeters, and therefore it pumps blood with great force to the giraffe's head against gravity.
Imagine with me now when the giraffe lowers its head to drink water. The heart works with gravity now, and this strong pumping is supposed to burst the veins in its head, but this does not happen. Why? Because there are many mechanisms to prevent this.
First: There are valves along the carotid arteries that supply the brain, which slow down the rush of blood to the brain when the giraffe bends its head, but even with these valves, the last push of blood to the brain is enough to burst the small arteries leading to it, therefore we have a second protective mechanism: which is that the blood does not go directly to the brain and its small arteries, but rather to a network of blood vessels below the brain that work like a sponge to absorb the shock, then take care of distributing the blood gently in the giraffe's brain. This network of blood vessels expands to accommodate the excess blood when the giraffe lowers its head. This network is extremely complex and is called the rete mirabile, and it is also called: (The wonderful network), meaning (the wonderful network), and it is indeed wonderful, and many scientific studies have been conducted on it.
The third protective mechanism is the presence of seven valves in the vein descending from the head to the heart. These valves prevent the blood descending from the brain to the heart from returning to the brain. These three mechanisms protect the giraffe's brain from bursting when it bends its head to drink.
Okay, when the giraffe raises its head again, what happens? The blood vessels in the wonderful network (rete mirabile) contract at the right time to pump blood to the brain, and the valves in the arteries heading from the heart to the brain prevent the blood from slipping down, so the brain takes its need for blood, and the giraffe does not faint.
The opposite problem we face with the giraffe's legs, as it is expected that blood will accumulate in them, and the legs will swell, but this does not happen; because it has thick, tight skin in its legs, like compression socks that some patients use to prevent blood from accumulating in the limbs. Even NASA studies these details in the design of the giraffe, to design gravity suits for astronauts.
All of this is required by the length of the giraffe's neck, and this is only at the level of the circulatory system. Read - if you wish - what its long neck requires in its digestive, respiratory, nervous systems, and others.
All of this is an example of irreducible complexity; all the mechanisms mentioned must be present all at once with a long neck, and they do not agree with the idea of slow gradualism at all, the giraffe's large heart will burst its veins if its neck is short, and if the neck is long without these complex mechanisms, the blood will not reach the brain. The matter is not as the priests of superstition portray it: slightly stretching the neck with a drawing, or on Photoshop and the story is over. In deceiving and belittling the minds of their followers; none of this has a place for randomness or chance.
Do you know - brothers! - what does it mean for the giraffe's large heart to exist? The wonderful network? Or the valves? Or the thick skin? Each of these structures contains a very large number of different proteins that are integrated and coordinated. What does it mean for them to form randomly?
I will give you an example that illustrates the idea. Imagine with me 10 computers, each with a different Word file, and each is connected to a printer that prints the Word file automatically every hour, and the resulting papers from the printer are in Braille. A blind person stands beside it, and each blind person takes the resulting paper, feels it with his fingers, and assembles Lego pieces based on it in certain shapes, then there is in the middle of these devices another blind person, who takes what the ten blind people produce, and gathers them in a large structure.
The Word files on the computers in our example resemble the genetic code, with its diverse genes, the printers resemble the work of copying these genes, or what is known as (RNA), the blind people are the ribosomes that read the copies, and convert them into small proteins, the large structure that is finally assembled is one of the cell's proteins, which consists of several small proteins, and all of this represents what happens in a single cell of a living being.
Followers of the myth say: It is the random mutations that gave the ancestors of the giraffe the wonderful mechanisms, which we talked about during the gradual elongation of its neck, random mutations?! Imagine that we brought (10) children in their first year of age, and placed each of them on one of the computers, so that they randomly type on the keyboard, changing a Word file, and the printers print, and the blind collect small pieces based on the new papers. Of course, these scribbles of the children must be numerous to produce a new protein for us. The problem is that the scribbles will corrupt the original Word files; meaning the genetic material necessary for the production of proteins essential for the life of the organism.
The genetic material - brothers! - is composed of billions of letters, and it contains the code for tens of thousands of proteins. A single change in a sensitive place among these letters may be fatal or produce a deformity in the animal. They will tell you: No problem; natural selection will eliminate the unfit organisms, and you can imagine how many these organisms will be with the scribbles of the children!
Let the infants continue to type on the keyboards, and one day the scribbles of one of them will succeed in producing a meaningful paragraph, which will be translated into a new small useful protein, and this coincides - by chance - with the fact that the scribbles of the other (9) infants also produced meaningful paragraphs, which were translated into other small proteins, and the happiest news is that all this happened in coincidence with the fact that the scribbles of our children restored the original genetic code as it was, to produce the original proteins necessary for the life of the organism, and the new small proteins gathered to produce a huge protein, which will be a step on the way to the formation of a valve. I will add to you a poetic verse, this happy event coincided with similar random events in another place in the genetic material, on another chromosome, which produced for us, with the sum of the coinciding chances, another protein that will be a step on the way to increasing the size of the heart, and all this also coincides with scribbles on another chromosome, which led to the production of new collagen, which will be a step on the way to the formation of thick skin in the legs of the organism, and thus we have a successful transitional creature, in the midst of a sea of failed attempts that nature has eliminated, we have a creature with a slightly longer neck than the first creature, this creature spoke saying: (In English) Here I am! But! Where is the lady?! Until the joy of our new creature is complete, for all these random hits happened in a similar or close manner, in coincidence to produce a female creature with the sum of the coincidences, suitable for mating with the male, and with the passage of millions of years, and the continuation of the infants in scribbling, and demolishing what they have built of additions, then restoring it by chance, then adding new meaningful paragraphs, there was formed for us the giraffe with its big heart, wonderful network, valves, special skin, and harmony of dimensions.
The student of biology will understand this parable completely, and will know that the matter is in reality much more complex and difficult than this. And if you want, brother, to understand the subject of genetic encoding more, I ask you to return to episode (19) of (Journey of Certainty) entitled: (The Amazing Genetic Code). Who understands the composition of the cell and genetic encoding will realize that if we provide the cell with inexhaustible stores of amino acids, and expose it to all factors of random mutations, the air, earth, land, and sea will be filled with failed attempts and valueless proteins, without the cell transforming by the sum of chances into another type of cell. This and thousands of cells gather on the head of a pin.
All that we have mentioned - brothers! - is in a relatively simple change in the same organism, the elongation of its neck only. You can imagine the size of the farce then, when the followers of the myth speak of the transformation of reptiles into birds, or the transformation of a land creature into a whale, with the huge differences between these creatures in all their vital organs, and even their need to produce new devices, such as the device of flight or swimming.
When you realize that - brother! - you will realize the extent of the contempt for the human mind that the supporters of the myth practice when they present you with a drawing like this, or like this. Feathers grow on the hands of the dinosaur; so that it can catch the mosquito, in a dramatic comedy. Fault - oh people! - and by Allah, fault. "Among what the people have understood from the speech of the first prophecy: If you do not feel shame, then do what you will." (Reported by Bukhari).
When you understand all of this, you will be provoked by these drawings that do not respect the mind or science, and you will realize how Richard Dawkins deceives his readers and exploits them when he makes them believe that the eye was formed little by little, from 1 to 100%, and likewise the wings of birds. You will realize the extent of the ignorance that some of the Arab mythmakers possess when they tell you: "It is possible that reptiles may have grown feathers through random mutations," feathers grew! Knowing that the composition of feathers is very, very complex, you will realize that the drawings and fantasies that the followers of the myth pass on with such simplicity, in a word or a drawing, require millions of changes, i.e., millions of new and changing letters that must all be correct, but rather all of them are interconnected. That is, the new member like the wing that will appear to the dinosaur according to their claim, must be accompanied by many random and all correct changes; to feed the wing with blood and nerves, and to connect its new bones with the body with ligaments, muscles, etc., and all this without affecting the rest of the Word file, or by restoring its errors as they were. All this is represented to you by the followers of the myth with a simple smear of paste, you will realize how funny it is that the followers of the myth describe the rational believers as: (superficial and naive); because they reject their myth, and we have another stance on the subject when we talk about the attempt to reconcile the myth and Islam, by proposing the idea of: (directed evolution), how this requires the occurrence of a very large number of deliberate changes in the genetic material in coincidence, and this contradicts the definition of evolution.
Examples: (speak to them as children) are very numerous in the speech of the followers of the myth, but we do not want to prolong for you, therefore, we have so far talked about three methods of promoting the myth: mixing it with facts, dazzling to convince you to rent the mind, and speak to them as children. Follow with us - brothers! - the coming episodes; to see other methods.
Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.