Episode 31 - Wake Up

Peace be upon you. Let us see whether everything that our children study in schools and universities... are facts? Or are there politicized aspects where they are misled with myths that contradict proven facts from 130 years ago?

Let us tell you a shocking story that summarizes a lot about science and Western scientists. It is the story of "the whale's hind legs," so follow along with us.

The Myth of the Whale's Hind Legs

If you asked the followers of the myth of evolution: What is the clearest example of evolution to you? They would say to you: the evolution of whales.

Bring us evidence of the evolution of the whale. They say: the hind bones in the whale; in the rear of the whale, there are two bones, with no use. It is clear that they are remnants of pelvic bones and two legs of a land animal that lived 52 million years ago, then random mutations and natural selection occurred until it turned into the whale we see, and these two bones remained as witnesses to the randomness and non-purposefulness. So if God created creatures, why would He put useless bones in the whale?

And perhaps the first to describe these bones as useless was the book "Biology by Curtis and Barnes" (1989), stating that they are "useless vestigial" remnants, meaning archaeological remnants with no use.

Then most - if not all - of the biology books in Western universities, and those adopted in Arab universities as well, such as the book Glencoe Biology, the book Modern Biology, the book Biology by Raven and Johnson, and others, followed in describing these bones as useless remnants.

Hardly any biology book studied by medical, pharmacy, nursing, biology students, and school students in the international programs "IG" and "SAT" is without these illustrations and statements confirming the lack of function of these bones. All of this under the title: "Evolutionary Evidence."

And you hardly listen to any of the myth's fabricators except that he speaks about these bones enthusiastically as evidence of evolution, such as Jerry Coyne and Richard Dawkins.

"Sleep Tight": Discovering the Function of the Hind Bones

Then what happened? In 2014, one of the evolutionary journals, indeed a journal named after the myth, Evolution, published a study titled: "Sexual selection targets pelvic bones in dolphins and whales."

Suddenly, after this study, news sites were filled with headlines like: "Whale reproduction depends greatly on pelvic bones."

• Is that reasonable? Does it have a use?
• Not only does it have a use, but it is necessary for reproduction, and without it, these whales would not exist.

Even this site said: "A recent study has overturned an old evolutionary belief by proving that pelvic bones play an important role in mating." And the Smithsonian.com site - which is very committed to the myth - headlines: "Whales benefit from their pelvic bones."

Okay, excellent... Did these sites then admit that this weakens the myth of evolution, after the collapse of evidence they relied heavily on? Of course not! But they gathered evolutionary words: "evolutionary," "evolved" at the beginning of their articles, and attributed the credit for these bones and their function to evolution.

Their tongue says: The truth must diminish so that the myth may continue, and he who is accustomed to riding stubbornness lives forever between the pits.

Nevertheless... We like to say to these many sites that published the news: "Sleep tight." The scientific paper in the Evolution journal that caused this uproar was not about proving that pelvic bones are essential for mating, but this is a known fact since ancient times, as is clear from the introductions of this paper.

Followers of the myth, do you not read? I myself took the trouble to read the paper and found in its introductions this paragraph stating that many have imagined that these bones are useless, and that this is not true, because they are important for mating. They began to explain the importance of these bones for mating, which was known in the first place, and the names of scientific studies (11 scientific studies) that detail this importance, and the researchers placed a diagram showing the relationship of these bones to the reproductive organs in whales.

So, the function of these bones in whale mating is known in the first place. And it was not the subject of this research paper in 2014, but the subject of it was: studying the differences in the shape of these bones in different types of whales and dolphins, and showing that their sizes and shapes are consistent with the internal organs of the whale or dolphin, which helps them in mating.

Meaning, once again: what the myth's supporters make into a suspicion to seduce the deceived, turns by the correct science into new evidence for the intelligent and that everything is precisely measured.

The History of Knowing the Function of the Bones

Wait... Let us go back to the previous studies that this paper cited as studies that detail the role of these bones in mating. The strange surprise - brothers - is that the first scientific paper that talked about the importance of these bones in mating is the paper of Struthers in 1881. 1881, a year before Darwin himself died.

Meaning the fact that these bones are important for mating was known from the days of Darwin, not by the research of 2014 as the "scientific" sites imagined. But it was known from the days of my grandfather's grandfather - may God have mercy on them.

This Struthers was a follower of the myth. I also went back to his paper and found that he studied these bones in detail and drew them, then explained - in detail - their relationship to the sexual organs in whales. Struthers says that these bones are remnants of the legs of creatures from which whales evolved, and that their function in whales has changed to become focused on mating.

Let us now stop this funny stubbornness to prove the myth. The important thing is that Struthers, more than 130 years ago, clarified the importance of these bones in detail. And after him, many researchers came to confirm the same truth in their published studies in 1885, 1907, 1918, 1966, 1998, 2004, 2007, 2009. All these studies mention the fact of the role of the bones in mating as an accepted fact and move on to another more detailed subject.

Misleading Schoolbooks

But wait... Isn't this laughable? Assuming that bones that were for walking turned into ones for mating? How did Strotherz assume that the femur evolved into bones related to the sexual organs of whales to help them mate? How did he assume that without any evidence? Nonsense! Why don't we accept the fact that they help in mating? And keep the assumption that they evolved from a land creature?

This magical touch was done by the book: "Biology by Curtis and Barnes". Instead of the sentence: "These bones are important evolutionary remnants in whale mating", the sentence became: "These bones are evolutionary remnants, and they are useless". Then, "Biology by Curtis and Barnes" was followed by a large number of approved books, as we have seen.

• Approved books, taught by doctors and professors in universities, subjected to review, editing, and updates every year or a few years?
• Yes, how?!

At the end of the Evolution paper that caused a stir in 2014, the researchers - who are also followers of the myth - reaffirm the role of these bones in whale mating and describe those who say they are unimportant as non-specialists in whales. Non-specialists? Okay, where are the specialists to warn of this glaring error that has polluted biology books with a myth that contradicts a fact known for 130 years?

Therefore, we say to the scientific sites that published that the benefit of the bones in the back of the whale has been discovered - finally: "Sleep well". This fact has been known for 130 years. But many followers of the myth do not bother to read.

Therefore, we advise the followers of the myth, listen: "Therefore, in science, it is not useful to go and get a book from 100 years ago and say to me I criticize evolution. It doesn't work... What is needed in science? Continuous updating. That is, if you rely completely on a book composed even before 5 years and 4 years, you may fall into scientific scandals. If you want to talk about science, you must follow continuously. Science has no sleep, no one sleeps and wakes up to follow science. It doesn't work". Exactly, well done, thank you.

Let's see the keeping up with science. We say okay, what are these two sides? These two back sides in this huge streamlined body that swims in water. Correct, there are no two back sides? But if you go to what the internal structure is, you will be surprised here, and you will find a group of small bones much smaller than the bones in the fin.

But when these bones are studied and scrutinized, it becomes clear that they are bones of two back sides, remaining bones. Of course, these are of no use, by consensus of biologists altogether. These bones are inside the body, clear? And it is clear that they are not adapted at all, not at all, for an animal of this streamlined shape. They have no use, and they are not required. Why then are they present? Why are they planted at the end of this body? They are the archaeological remains, of course... of two back sides, which were once useful and necessary for a "Tetrapod" creature with four limbs that walks on four. Of course, it doesn't walk, in water of course it walks, in the land. Strange and weird evidence, ah, strange and weird evidence. Of course, these are of no use by consensus of biologists altogether. Of course, these are of no use by consensus. That is, there are people we say to them: Sleep well, and there are those who have not woken up yet.

Let's see what is being taught to our children in the videos translated into Arabic and published in 2016 under the pretext of enlightening the mind and spreading science, as they claim: (Voice of commentator): "Modern whales do not have legs but they have a pair of strange small bones where the hips and legs are supposed to be. Here is a picture of these bones. Is this similarity just a coincidence? Or are these real leg bones? Perhaps remnants of the evolutionary history of whales".

But let's see the world's most famous approved books, which our children study in universities and schools, especially the IB and SAT systems. Of course, they must have been aware of this scandal and corrected the mistake, right?

Let's see this book Holt Biology "Holt Biology" which is taught to the children of Muslims in the international SE program edition 2011 still misleads them with the back bones of whales. So go today to your son and daughter - brother - and inform them of this episode so they know how they are being laughed at.

What about the book "Biology by Raven and Johnson" "Biology by Raven And Johnson" the world-famous in its latest edition in 2017? No way, they must have corrected the mistake, right? Let's see page 434. Not yet! It still repeats the same lie and tells the students about these bones: "have no apparent function" and tells the students: "It is difficult to understand these functionless organs except that they are evolutionary remnants from the past".

Other Scientific Scandals

This scandal, my brothers, is similar to the scandal of "Haeckel's" embryo drawings, which we discussed in the episode "In the Name of Superstition," revealing that it was exposed as a fraud over a century ago in 1909. Yet, even today, approved textbooks and websites supporting superstition continue to circulate it, alongside the myth that the whale's posterior bones are useless, and many other superstitions.

These very books still claim that the appendix is functionless, as in "Biological Science by Raven and Johnson," 2017 edition, page 992. Despite our revelation in the episode "I Embarrassed You" that followers of superstition have long ago exposed this as a lie.

Some of these books are titled "Modern Biology." Modern! Yet they have not updated their information in 130 years. Their attitude is: What's the big deal? We believe in evolution, and evolution takes millions of years. Therefore, after millions of years, this information (in English) "archaic" will be removed from our books.

But I have good news for you, my brothers. In 2018, just months or weeks ago, the fifth edition of the book "Essentials of Biology" was published by the well-known global publisher McGraw-Hill. To their credit, they did not repeat the same lie. The stench is over. So what did they do? Did the authors admit that these bones are essential for the survival of whales and apologize for the previous editions' errors? Of course not. Instead, they did not even mention these posterior bones as if they do not exist. Honestly, this is a scandal. Something you used as evidence for decades turns into evidence against you! So there is no need to mention it. Do not mention it at all.

But what about the evolution of whales, which we consider the clearest example! Especially since every alleged episode has a comedic story, as we will see - God willing. Therefore, they moved the lie of useless bones to another creature in the alleged whale evolution scale. It is the "Rodhocetus."

• Who, excuse me?
• Rodhocetus.
• We are honored.
• Okay, can we see the other one and examine him to see his bone story as well?
• No, sorry, he's dead.
• Dead?! When?
• 30 million years ago.
• Can you prove that our statement is wrong and that his bones were not useless? We challenge you.

And you find the 2018 book repeating another lie about the protrusions in the rear of snakes, claiming they are useless evolutionary remnants, remnants of legs of a four-limbed creature from which snakes evolved. The same lie repeated by other approved books, despite it being discovered at least 40 years ago in published scientific research that these protrusions are "clasps" or "spears" that help snakes during mating and in the struggle between males, not useless legs, as promoted by those who exploit people's minds.

Perhaps we need to wait another 130 years for these books to hide this lie and turn the page until they discover new lies to keep the superstition hanging on its bridges so it does not fall... Thus, followers of superstition look for any protrusion in any creature to say: "Useless evolutionary remnants."

True Science vs. False Science

If you, who believe in the superstition of evolution, respect science and are passionate about scientific facts, then I respect true science and am even more passionate about it than you. We excel in biological sciences and have distinguished ourselves in the academic stage - by the grace of Allah the Almighty. Moreover, I do not just receive science from the West but also contribute to it through published research, patents, and correcting the equations on which experimental research is based, as well as correcting errors in the approved "textbox" books in some fields.

Yes... I love true science in the mentioned books. As for the pages of false science "pseudoscience," indoctrinated to serve superstition, respecting science has taught me that these pages are only good for wrapping the thermos - in our local expression. But with a recommendation to ensure that these papers do not contain lead or any health pollutant, such as containing mental pollutants, especially since they are colored.

Other Examples of Misinterpretation

There is a lot in the bag, my brothers, but I do not want to prolong this, so I refer you to some sources.

The Giraffe and the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

The giraffe, do you remember, my brothers? Do you remember its magnificent equipment, the special system for pumping blood to the brain and preventing its accumulation in the legs, and NASA's inspiration from its model, attempting to imitate it. All of this, the followers of superstition leave it and do not care. Instead, they say about the recurrent laryngeal nerve in the giraffe: "But the strange thing is that he did not notice the significance, he did not realize the significance... He did not ask: Why did this nerve take this long loop that seems to be a foolish, stupid loop? There is no need for it. Why did he do this?"

No need for it! That's what they say... Therefore, I refer you, my brothers, to this article by our brothers "Muslim Researchers" to see how the evidence of greatness and the precision of design among followers of superstition becomes evidence of randomness and coincidence.

The Summary and Questions

In the box, there is much to discuss, and today we have talked about one of the alleged elements of whale evolution. About this, one of the founders of modern Darwinism, "Stephen Jay Gould," after reviewing the alleged evolution of whales and the evidence of the whale's supposedly useless bones, said enthusiastically about the evolution of whales: "It is a fossil victory that I cannot imagine a better story than this to represent science for the common people, nor a more convincing and rational political victory over the backward creationists."

There is much in the box, but... to this extent, it is enough for those who seek guidance. And in the past, a warning to those bitten by the priests of false science and their Arab advocates. And the believer is not bitten from a hole twice.

We may ask: By God, if the heroes of this scandalous scientific scandal were authors of Muslim, religious books, how would the view of Muslim youth themselves, who are fascinated by the West and rent their intellects to them, be towards them? Isn't this a scandal for which publishing houses would be closed, and at the very least, sued for giving misleading information to students and doctors?

The story of the whale's back bones has taught us much, brothers. The concept that what the advocates of superstition take as an excuse in creation turns, with correct science, into new evidence for the saying of Allah the Most High: "The craft of Allah, who has perfected everything." [An-Naml: 88]

And we have learned from it that we must warn our children in universities and schools; lest they be new victims of outdated information and falsified, politicized science. And we have learned from the story of the whale's bones: to smile when someone who has rented his mind says to you: "You are obsessed with the cosmic conspiracy against religion, all books teach evolution, all universities teach evolution, this is science - oh brother - science."

We may ask: These books that rely on scrutiny to a great extent except for the superstition, when we see these superstitions clinging to them for decades, even for more than a century, is all of this just mistakes? Or politicization of science? Or using science to mislead people? I will not answer, and I will leave the answer to you...

However, we have an important stop later in its appropriate place in the journey of certainty with God's will, with very shocking and documented facts, some of which I have personally, in which we answer these questions.

But, it is very important that we conclude with what we started with: Assume - brother - that you have not been exposed to any of the three episodes: (Your Embarrassment), (The Cocktail), and (The Sleep). You are not the one required to search for an explanation for all the questions we mentioned, but you could, while putting one foot on top of the other, and sipping your coffee, say to the follower of superstition: "It is upon you, the burden of proof that the same creatures that demand of me to explain parts of them, that these creatures can be brought about by your randomness and your blind selection. This is our sufficient answer in reason and logic. And all that was mentioned in these three episodes was merely - and by the way, in the margin - to say to the advocate of superstition: Read and learn, before you speak, you ignorant ones."

O Allah, teach us what benefits us and benefit us with what You have taught us, and make us guiding and rightly guided ones. Peace be upon you.

(Quran recitation): "This is the creation of Allah. So show Me what those besides Him have created. Rather, the wrongdoers are in clear error." [Luqman: 11].