Episode 37 - All Roads Lead to Superstition - Recycling Evolution Theory
All Roads Lead to Superstition - Recycling the Theory of Evolution
Introduction: Recycling Theories
So, today we will discuss - my brothers - the eleventh method of deception used by followers of superstition, which is formulating theories, no matter how much their foundations have collapsed, they are capable of being reshaped, like the idols of Al-Uzza that the people of Jahiliyyah used to make.
(Friend): Why are you upset? (Speaker): Man, the guys from the neighborhood are sitting around plotting against me. (Friend): Dude, why are you saying that? Man, Samir and Tamer are at home, and for sure Safwan and Adnan are with them. They only gather the four of them to plot against me. Especially lately, there have been problems between us, and Safwan the troublemaker keeps filling their heads with stuff about me. Anyway, I call this the conspiracy theory. (Friend): The conspiracy theory?! Come on, come on, look, Adnan and Safwan are walking down the street. If your theory is correct, they would be together with the other two. (Speaker): Never mind, but Samir and Tamer are at home. I see them sitting there whispering, and there's a kid with them. For sure, they're sitting there plotting, and they're writing the plan on a paper so they don't forget. (Friend): Bro, you - originally - claimed they were plotting against you because they were together, and I proved to you that they're not together. (Speaker): Ah, you don't get it. The theory has been adjusted, it's now called the conciliatory conspiracy theory. The conciliatory conspiracy theory says that two of them are writing the plan, and two of them are going out to implement it on the street. (Friend): Okay, wait, wait, where are you going? (panting) This paper that was with the neighborhood guys, it's the World Cup matches program! (Speaker): Man, it's a cover-up, it's a cover-up. This situation, I originally knew they were covering up and doing this thing. Basically, the theory has been adjusted, it's now called the conciliatory camouflage conspiracy theory. You don't know anything about the theory, and you're coming to argue with me, you ignorant!
In this way, can we one day prove to our friend that his theory is false? Of course not; because in his way, it is not subject to error.
The Book of Allah - the source of all beneficial knowledge - announced prophecies and secrets, and time came to confirm them. It also announced oppositions, if proven, they are not from Allah, and challenged people to prove these oppositions: "Then bring a surah like it and call your witnesses besides Allah if you are truthful" [Al-Baqarah:23], "And if it were from other than Allah, they would have found in it much contradiction" [An-Nisa:82]. So, prove the existence of a contradiction in the Quran or bring a surah like it, a test that anyone can try, and many other tests that the Quran has set.
But in the world of superstition, predictions fall one by one, as we saw in the episode "Darwin's Bluff" about his prediction of countless creatures, and as we saw in the predictions of his followers about the existence of beneficial mutations, and the possibility of creating life in a lab from inanimate objects, which made his followers bluff the predictions to the edges of the universe, and even beyond it, as we saw, so that they cannot be tested.
The second question: Are there oppositions that if we discover them, will the followers of the theory admit that it is false? Because oppositions do not only nullify parts of the theory, but they demolish its foundations and empty it of its content. Let's see! And remember in our stations, brothers, our friend, and his reshaping of his theory about the conspiracy of the neighborhood youth.
Darwin's fantasies that turned into a theory:
- A primitive being that evolved through random changes.
- And blind natural selection.
- Gradually.
- Slowly.
- Passing through countless intermediate creatures to produce what we see of living creatures.
Memorize these five points, brothers, which are the same points of modern Darwinism, or the modern synthetic theory in its original form.
Collapse of the Fifth Fortress: Intermediate Creatures
Let's start with the fifth fortress until we reach the heart of the theory: "countless intermediate creatures." Let's leave the sad stories, forgery, and misinterpretation of fossils; Darwin's followers agree with us - in the end - that they have not found countless transitional creatures in the layers of the earth.
Even the evolutionist Stephen Gould "Stephen Gould" from the leading scientists of the theory stated in his book (The Panda's Thumb), after 120 years of the theory, that the history of most fossils is characterized by two features, the second of which is sudden appearance, so that in one area, the type of creatures does not appear gradually by transforming from previous creatures, but appears suddenly, fully formed. And Gould tried to provide solutions as we will see.
And similar testimonies from the evolutionist, Professor of Natural History Keith Thompson "Keith Thompson" and Robert Carroll "Robert Carroll", and many other confessions that the popularizers of superstition do not mention among the people.
So, the fifth fortress, the fortress of "countless intermediate creatures," has fallen. Have you then been convinced of the falsity of the theory? They said: But we will make an adjustment to the theory to accommodate the reality of the fall of the prophecy. This adjustment says: that evolution sometimes occurs very quickly to produce new types of creatures, and then these types remain without evolution for millions of years. Therefore, the fossil record has not been able to retain samples of the transitional creatures that resulted from rapid evolution.
And we named this modified theory at the level of families of creatures quantum evolution Quantum Evolution. And at the level of types of creatures, we have another modification, which we named punctuated equilibrium Punctuated Equilibrium, also called punctuated evolution Punctuated Evolution. So, contrary to the sudden appearance of types of creatures without intermediate creatures is one of the pillars of our modified theory. Do you see that you don't understand our theory and you're coming to argue in it, you ignorant?
Collapse of the Fourth Fortress: Extreme Slowness
But wait, rapid development?! So you yourselves have demolished your fourth fortress, the fortress of slowness, which you used to hit us over the head with every time we asked you: Why hasn't there been any development in the known history of humans? You said: Evolution is veeeery slow, it takes hundreds of thousands, even millions of years. So tell us, in the end, is your evolution very fast or very slow?
They said: Sometimes it is fast, and we call it rapid evolution "Tachytelic," and sometimes it is slow and we call it slow evolution "Bradytelic." We are not asking you about the names you have invented (إِنْ هِيَ إِلَّا أَسْمَاءٌ سَمَّيْتُمُوهَا) [An-Najm:23]. We are asking you about the facts.
Are there also (intermediaries) in the world of evolution? We have fossils of creatures whose ages you estimate to be millions, even hundreds of millions of years, and yet, they are still the same to this day. Why haven't they evolved?
(Voice of Adnan Ibrahim): And then he said to you: These ants, their age is millions of years according to the testimony of evolutionists, and they found them in amber, ants from millions and millions of years ago. Why haven't they evolved? And why should they evolve? Who said that there must be a single pace for all creatures that they must all evolve at this rate? That's not correct. Contemporary synthesis tells you: "Evolution does not happen at a single speed" and they are fully aware of this.
(Speaker): What do you know, my theory says: Half of the youth of the neighborhood write the conspiracy, and the other half go out to execute it. I am fully aware of this.
One type of fern plant was discovered with fossils, and their age was estimated to be at least (180) million years. They analyzed its genetic material and found it preserved as it is, unchanged, as in an article in the journal Science. Are there (intermediaries) in the world of evolution? Are there creatures that remain the same and do not evolve for hundreds of millions of years, and yet you want to convince us that environmental conditions caused other creatures, in the same region, to evolve at an enormous speed, as some junior employees evolve?
Don't you say that genetics is the strongest evidence of evolution? Genetics tells us - as in the episode (The Cheater) - that the differences between creatures, which you claim some of which turn and evolve into others, their differences at the genetic material level are in the tens, or hundreds of millions of letters. You have long tried to convince us that random mechanisms such as: mutations, chromosomal hybridization, retroviruses, jumping genes, that these can cause these changes if given millions and hundreds of millions of years. How were these alleged periods reduced to just thousands of years?
The important thing is that this fortress of (slowness) has collapsed.
Collapse of the Third Fortress: Gradualism
Come to the third fortress, the fortress of (gradualism). Genetics and physiology refute the idea of gradualism; for we have shown in the episode (Speak to Them as Children) that for a simple modification to occur in the same creature, such as the alleged elongation of the giraffe's neck, there must be many changes that must occur together, all at once.
This elongation would require the enlargement of the heart, the presence of special valves in the blood vessels, a special design for the rete mirabile, and thick skin at the lower ends of the giraffe. The occurrence of one of these before the other would result in a creature that is not coordinated and not fit for survival. If the giraffe's heart enlarges before these mechanisms and before the elongation of its neck, its veins will burst. If the neck elongates first, blood will not reach the brain.
And all this is just at the level of the circulatory system. What about the many changes in its other systems: digestive, respiratory, nervous, muscular, skeletal, its cervical vertebrae, and so on... All of these must change in a coordinated manner. Similarly, all living systems are based on irreducible complexity. Therefore, there is no room for accumulation, because we are not talking about Lego pieces that are added one after the other, but about creatures, each of which must be coordinated and integrated in its members.
In other words, imagine - for extreme simplification - that the required transformation is to change the word "animal" to "human"! So that the changes are gradual, the first change produces the word "Eevan," the second "Inwan," and the third "human." The words "Eevan" and "Inwan" are meaningless in the world of biology, meaning creatures that do not exist, creatures that are not suitable for survival or reproduction, and therefore we will not reach a human through them. Therefore, there is no room for gradualism in the alleged evolutionary change from one creature to another.
Did the followers of the myth admit their fall? No, they said: "We will amend our theory, and we will say: that a large number of mutations can occur, producing one type of creature from another type all at once, without the need for gradualism, and this explains the absence of transitional creatures from the fossil record, and we will call the amended theory: Macromutation Theory, the theory of major mutations, or Saltation, the theory of leaps, another type of evolution: random changes, and blind natural selection."
Therefore, tens of millions of letters of the precise genetic material change randomly all at once. In other words, if we represent the genetic material of a creature as Word files open on tens of thousands of computers, each file representing a specific gene, all of them will cooperate in building the body of one creature. And mutations are like the scribbles of infants hitting the keyboard, as in the episode (Speak to Them as Children), the infants - according to this theory - have made a group of coordinated scribbles that added meaningful paragraphs, filled lines, and changed letters, without causing any scribbles in the rest of the material, in the rest of the paragraphs of the files. And all this by pure randomness and chance. And they call that science!
By the way, this theory is good news for the followers of the myth who love to rise in the air. If you have a car show and you hear about a hurricane that will hit the city, leave your cars in the lot; you may wake up the next day and find that one of them - at least - has turned into an airplane all at once, with a group of simultaneous random changes, according to your group. Especially since they no longer require millions of years, but it can be all at once, according to their opinion.
Therefore, the idea of slow evolution has completely collapsed, so it no longer even needs thousands of years, but all at once. And more importantly, the third fortress, the fortress of gradualism, has collapsed.
Disputes Among Evolutionists and the Proliferation of Myths
Of course, my brothers, when we say that followers of myths change from one theory to another, and we told them... and they responded to us, this does not mean that they are of one mind, nor does it negate that they differ among themselves. Some of them remained adherents of gradualism, while others deny it. The idea of leaps or major mutations was ridiculed and strongly rejected for a period of time, then some of them returned to support it, and some even mock each other, and ridicule each other. And they all have the right to this mockery and ridicule, honestly.
Followers of slow gradualism describe rapid evolution as the evolution of recklessness and folly, the evolution of fools. In response, followers of rapid evolution call their evolution the slow, crawling evolution. It is enough for you to see their miserable state, that you look at the "Criticism" section and its statements from this page on the explanation of punctuated equilibrium on Wikipedia. Even more dangerous are the words of the participants in the conference "New Directions in Evolutionary Biology" in 2016, who complained about the ideological hostility they face from the "followers of the traditional theoretical framework of the theory" in their words.
Some of them even split from each other and create their own evolutionary religion, the latest of which is the "Third Way of Evolution," which includes a group of evolutionists. Yes, they do all of this, but they all agree that the myth in one of its forms must continue. Similarly, the pre-Islamic idolaters differed among themselves, and some of them made their own idol to worship and attribute merit to it. Among them are those who worshipped Hubal, Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, Manat, Al-Shari, Isaf, or Na'ilah. And they may even fight to defend their gods! But they all agree on the myth of polytheism.
Similarly, many followers of the myth design their own modification - meaning their own idol - from the myth of evolution, and attribute miracles and merit to its existence, and the existence of all living things. They have forms of evolution: approximate evolution, divergent evolution, parallel evolution, gradual evolution, quantitative evolution, punctuated evolution, macroevolution, saltation evolution, extended evolution, shared evolution. And the idols will continue to be made; the important thing is that the word "evolution" remains; to deny creation with intention, wisdom, and will.
Which of these types do you want us to reconcile? Especially since many of them are contradictory and conflicting. And we also say to those who say: "Which Islam do you want us to follow? The solution is to abandon religion altogether and resort to science." As if the alleged science is one agreed-upon thing, far from being a false science, and the fact that Islam and true science do not contradict each other. Which of your sciences do you want us to follow? Gradual evolution, or punctuated equilibrium, or extended evolution, or exactly which one?
Conclusion: The Eternal Question
Let us return to the fortresses of the theory of evolution! What remains of it? Three fortresses have collapsed, and two remain. And we are approaching the heart of the theory. And so as not to prolong this for you, my brothers, we will postpone dealing with these two fortresses until the next episode, which is the most important, the most dangerous, and full of surprises.
In conclusion, we return to the question with which we began our episode: with your method, O followers of the myth, is there any phenomenon or fact that you can one day admit to the invalidity of your theory?
Therefore, we have discussed today, my brothers, the eleventh method of deception used by followers of myths, which is the formulation of theories, no matter how their pillars have collapsed, they are capable of being reshaped, like the idols of Al-Uzza that the people of pre-Islamic times used to make.
Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.