Appendix 31, Evolution: A Divinely Guided Process
Darwin's claim that life began as a simple cell is laughable, because the cell is extremely complex, with billions of nucleotides and millions of biochemical reactions.“Darwin’s famous statement that “life began as a ‘simple’ cell” is laughable.”“We know now that the cell, is an extremely complex unit, with billions of nucleotides in the gene material inside the nucleus, and millions of biochemical reactions.”
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Even if human and monkey genes were 99 percent similar, 300 million nucleotides would have to be rearranged by chance, which probability laws make utterly impossible.“However, even if the similarity was 99%, we are still talking about 300,000,000 nucleotides that must be haphazardly re-arranged to change the monkey into a human. The probability laws preclude this as an utter impossibility.”
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Evolution is possible only within a given species, as the navel orange evolved from seeded oranges and not from apples.“Evolution is possible only within a given species. For example, the navel orange evolved from seeded oranges, not from apples.”
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Humans are not descendants of monkeys; God started the creation of man from mud, specifically aged clay.“Humans not descendants of monkeys”“He started the creation of man from mud.”“I am creating the human being from ‘aged’ clay.”
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Life arising by accident is as likely as an unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory, a comparison Dr. Khalifa endorses as fitting.“A fitting quote here is that of Professor Edwin Conklin; he stated:”“The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.”
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Life began in water, as the Quran states that God initiated all living things from water.“Life began in water:”“From water we initiated all living things.”
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The laws of probability rule out haphazard evolution between species, so a fish cannot become a bird and a monkey can never become a human.“The laws of probablity preclude the possibility of haphazard evolution between species. A fish cannot evolve into a bird; a monkey can never evolve into a human.”“Probability Laws Preclude Darwin’s Evolution”
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The probability of the exact sequences of billions of nucleotides in DNA arising by chance is zero many times over, since probability already reaches zero with just 84 cubes.“Mathematicians, who are very exacting scientists, have agreed that the probability diminishes to “Zero” when we increase the number of cubes to 84.”“The probability laws tell us that the probability of the haphazard creation of the exacting sequences of nucleotides into DNA is Zero, many times over.”“We are not talking about 84 nucleotides; we are talking about billions of nucleotides that must be arranged in a specific sequence.”
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The Quran teaches that evolution is a fact designed by God.“We learn from the Quran that evolution is a divinely designed fact:”
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