| Evolutionary Tell Tales - 5
- BBC’s Evolution Of The
Human Brain Error
This part of the documentary The
Human Body, prepared by BBC and broadcast
on the NTV channel on November 6, 2002, dealt
with the human brain. In this documentary, the
information provided about the brain was supplemented
with the usual evolutionist propaganda clichés,
and the complexity in the human brain was described
as a “miracle of evolution.”
Saying that Chance Created Millions of Miracles
is Really Excessively Stupid
A great deal of information has so
far been provided about birth and The Human
Body in the NTV documentary The Human
Body. One of the most frequently repeated
phrases in the programme is “this is a miracle
of evolution.” NTV speaks of evolution as something
conscious, which knows what it is doing, makes
plans and flawlessly organizes inanimate objects
and atoms, and the channel is perhaps not fully
aware of the kind of significance underlying
this logic. “The miracle of
evolution” means “the miracle of chance,” since
according to the theory of evolution all living
things emerged by inanimate substances organizing
themselves as the result of coincidences. According
to this claim, atoms such as carbon, phosphate,
hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen gave rise to proteins,
cells, bacteria, fish, birds, starfish, dolphins,
leopards, elephants, bees, ants, roses, oranges,
eagles, lions, the human brain, the human heart,
the human hand, which still cannot be replicated
with all our present-day technology, the eyes,
and man himself, who thinks, takes decisions,
reads, understands what he reads, and feels
joy, sorrow and excitement, and all this by
chance. Every one of these complex and flawless
structures and features is a miracle, and there
are an infinite number of miracles in the universe.
There is no doubt to claim that all these came
about by chance is “absurd in the highest degree.”
Charles Darwin, the architect of the theory
of evolution, realised this and made the following
confession about the eye, just one of these
countless complex structures:
To suppose that the eye with all
its inimitable contrivances for adjusting
the focus to different distances, for admitting
different amounts of light, and for the correction
of spherical and chromatic aberration, could
have been formed by natural selection, seems,
I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.
(1)
In order to better understand how
stupid it is to maintain that all living things
and all the structures and organs in them came
about by chance it will be sufficient to recall
just a few of the features of the brain, the
subject of the NTV documentary. An
adult's brain contains some 10 billion neurons
(nerve cells). Neurons have projections called
“axon” and “dendrite,” and by means of these,
the neurons are interconnected. Thanks to these
connections, known as synapses, one neuron is
able to send messages to another. In his book
Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, the
famous biochemist Michael Denton states that
the number of connections between neurons is
in the region of 1 quadrillion (1015
or 1,000,000,000,000,000). He then goes on to
say:
It is hard to imagine the multitude
that 1015 represents. Take half
of the United States, which is 1 million square
miles, and imagine it being covered by forest,
with 10,000 trees per square mile. On each
of the 10,000 trees, which are on each of
the one million square miles, there are 100,000
leaves. That's how many connections are crammed
inside your brain. (2)
Every one of these
countless and interlinked connections in the
brain, an organ so small it fits into the human
skull, has been created in exactly the form
required and for a specific purpose. Thanks
to these connections, the result of the superior
design in Allah's creation, we are able to perform
various functions at the same time with no confusion
arising. For example, you can listen to music
at the same time as reading these words, while
also sipping a cup of coffee. At the same time,
moreover, your brain regulates your heartbeat,
allows you to breathe by carefully keeping the
oxygen levels in your blood at a fixed rate,
regulates your body temperature, calculates
which of your muscles in your hand need to contract,
and by how much, in order for you to lift your
cup to your lips without spilling it, and also
performs detailed calculations necessary for
your sense of balance to allow you to remain
on your feet, and it does all this without your
being aware of it. Hundreds of different functions
like these are carried out by the brain in the
most perfect manner right throughout our lives.
Yet we are quite unaware of all these calculations
going on in it.
An article called “Computing from
the Brain” in New Scientist magazine
drew the following analogy regarding the brain's
extraordinary performance capability:
In crude terms, the human brain
is a natural computer composed of 10 to 100
billion neurons, each of which connects to
about 10,000 others, and all of which function
in parallel. …Neuronal systems take about
100 processing steps to perform a complex
task of vision or speech which would take
an electronic computer billions of processing
steps. (3)
As we have seen, the human brain
possesses far superior features to computers
produced by the most highly advanced technology.
Yet for some reason evolutionists, who accept
that computers could never come about by the
chance combination of such substances as silicon,
wire and glass, refuse to accept that the human
brain, so far superior to any computer, could
not have come about by chance combinations of
atoms such as nitrogen, carbon and oxygen. They
harbour not the slightest doubts in fact, or
at least choose to give that impression. The
fact is, however, in the same way that designers,
engineers, a technical team, materials in the
right quantity and of the right quality and
expert knowledge are necessary for the construction
of a computer, so the same thing applies to
the brain. Yet not all of these are to be found
in nature. In order for the materials in nature
to give rise to birds, fish, horses, flowers
and human beings of all races it is clear that
they need the existence of a superior Creator,
possessed of infinite knowledge, wisdom and
power, and a flawless design capability. That
creator is Allah, the Lord of all men, who created
all the worlds from nothing.
There is no Mechanism in Nature Which Could
Turn
the Ape Brain into a Human One
A classical evolutionist claim was
repeated on the NTV documentary, in which it
was suggested that the brains of our ape-like
ancestors turned into the human brain over a
period of some 2.5 million years. An analogy
was drawn: The brain capacity of our ape-like
ancestors was compared to a small Fiat car engine,
and that of modern man to a much more developed
sports car engine.
In fact, this comparison undermines
the evolutionists' own thesis. Everyone knows
that no car engine could turn into another;
more highly develop one, as the result of chance.
Not even in trillions of years, let alone 2.5
million. In fact, under the laws of physics,
it will age and wear, rot, and eventually fall
apart. In order for such an engine to emerge,
a designer possessing the knowledge and ability
to develop it is essential.
Furthermore, there is an important
fact that even evolutionist scientists are forced
to admit: The only difference between the ape
and human brains is not just a question of capacity
and size. Materialists attempt to reduce all
human characteristics, and thus the functioning
of the brain, to matter. Yet it is today agreed
that the features of the human soul cannot be
reduced to matter. Man's ability to speak, think,
decide, plan, his desires and wishes, his artistic
and aesthetic abilities, his ability to possess
ideologies, to produce ideas and to dream, and
the virtues of love, loyalty and friendship
are not the product of the functioning of the
brain. The human soul is something beyond matter,
and that on its own is a challenge to materialism.
In his book The Mystery of the
Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness
and the Human Brain, the evolutionist
neurologist and brain surgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield
is forced many times to admit that the human
soul cannot be accounted for in terms of the
functioning of the brain. Some of these confessions
read:
Throughout my own scientific career,
I, like other scientists, struggled to prove
that brain accounts for the mind… Now, perhaps,
the time has come when we may profitably consider
the evidence as it stands, and ask the question…
which is the more reasonable of the two hypotheses:
that man's being is based on one element,
or on two [brain and spirit]? (4)
Here is the meeting of the mind
and brain. It is not to be accounted for by
any neuronal mechanisms that I can discover…
Since every man must adopt for himself, without
the help of science, his way of life and his
personal religion, I have long had my own
private beliefs. What a thrill it is than
to discover that the scientist too can legitimately
believe in the existence of spirit. (5)
Therefore, comparing the ape brain
to that of man avails the evolutionists not
at all, since it is clear that no mechanism
in nature can give man the characteristics which
make him human. It is Allah, the Lord of the
Worlds, Who gives man his soul, creates him
out of nothing and makes him different from
all other living things by breathing that soul
into him.
An Important But Ignored
Subject: IT IS NOT THE EYE WHICH SEES
Although an important scientific
truth is expressed in the BBC documentary, that
truth is not emphasized in the way it should
be. The documentary says: “Our eyes are only
a window. It is our brain which sees around
us. The eye merely forms the first stage.”
This phrase, which one encounters
in biology textbooks right from middle school,
is actually very important, containing as it
does a secret which can entirely alter a person's
way of looking at the world.
People imagine they see the world
with their eyes. The fact is, however, that
the eyes and the cells which comprise them are
merely responsible for turning the light reaching
them from the outside, via chemical processes,
into electrical signals. These electrical signals
later arrive at the visual center at the back
of the brain, which is where the image we see
takes shape. For instance, someone reading these
lines at this moment sees them in the visual
center in the back of his brain. In other words,
it is not actually the eyes which see. So, who
is it that sees the image in the visual center
and reads these words? Who is it that watches
with excitement, joy or sorrow the bright, colorful
three-dimensional image which forms within the
darkness of the brain?
The same thing also applies to the
senses of hearing, taste, smell and touch. Even
as one listens to one favorite song it is not
ones ears which are doing the hearing. Their
task is merely to collect sound waves. The cells
in the ears turn the sound waves reaching them
into electrical signals and forward them to
the hearing center in the brain. That favorite
song is then heard there. You hear the voice
of your best friend in your brain. But who is
it that hears these sounds within the dark confines
of the brain, enjoying the melody and rhythm?
The answer to these questions shows
that every thinking human being possesses a
soul. Another important point revealed by this
scientific fact is this: Everything we see,
hear and touch throughout our lives is perceived
in our brains. In other words, we can never
actually see or touch the originals of things.
What we are always in contact with is perceptions
in the brain, and it is impossible ever to have
direct experience of these objects by means
of these perceptions. For that reason everyone,
even in a crowded room, is actually watching
the perceptions in his brain, and is essentially
alone.
We may consider our dreams in order
to arrive at a better understanding of this.
Someone who dreams of holding a conference in
a packed hall is actually lying in bed alone.
The image of the conference forms within his
brain. It is impossible for that person to realize
he is dreaming until he wakes up, and he remains
convinced that he is attending a real conference.
The German psychiatry professor Hoimar
Von Ditfurth explains how we can never see the
outside world:
No matter how we put the argument,
the result doesn't change. What stands before
us in full shape and what our eyes view is
not the "world". It is only its image, a resemblance,
a projection whose association with the original
is open to discussion. 6
Someone who exercises his mind a
little will grasp this concept, which reveals
the true nature of the life of this world and
helps one realize just how hollow and meaningless
the passions and desires aimed at this world
truly are. The money in someone's wallet, the
yacht he buys for millions of dollars, his holding
company and his new model car are all images
which form within his brain. That individual
can never touch or see the originals of these.
All he perceives is images forming at the back
of his brain. This is a scientific fact. The
responsibility of all people of reason and good
conscience is to grasp this concept before “waking
from sleep,” in other words before dying, and
not to be deceived by becoming caught up in
the life of this world.
You can find the details and scientific
accounts of this great truth, which entirely
alters one's perspective on life, on the website
http://www.www.secretbeyondmatter.com/,
which contains the works of Harun Yahya, which
have had such enormous reactions all over the
world.
Conclusion
Characteristics peculiar to human
beings, such as thinking, taking pleasure, having
ideas, and feeling love, compassion, nostalgia,
affection, joy, sorrow, happiness and excitement,
cannot be accounted for from a materialist and
Darwinist perspective. These believe that all
living things emerged by chance from inanimate
matter, and are totally unable to explain how
it is that inanimate objects should one day
have begun to possess the capacity for thought,
decision-making, having ideas and artistic and
aesthetic taste. BBC should not be taken in
by the impressive images in its documentaries,
prepared as they are with a materialist and
Darwinist mindset, and should not ignore the
unscientific, irrational and illogical claims
made in these programs.
1 - Charles Darwin, The Origin
of Species, p. 75.
2 - Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory In Crisis,
London: Burnett Books, 1985, p. 330.
3 - Michael Recce and Philip Treleavan, "Computing
from the Brain," New Scientist, Vol. 118, No.
1614 (May 26, 1988), p. 61
4 - Wilder Penfield, The Mystery of the Mind:
A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human
Brain (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University
Press, 1975), p.80
5 - Wilder Penfield, The Mystery of the Mind:
A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human
Brain (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University
Press, 1975), p. xiii
6 - Hoimar von Ditfurth, Der Geist Fiel Nicht
Vom Himmel (The Spirit Did Not Fall From The
Sky), p. 256
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