The Origin of Life
A person probing the universe he lives in will encounter two hundred fifty billion galaxies each the home of about three hundred billion stars. Every one of these magnificent systems operates in accordance with specific laws and in a particular order. There is a plan, a design, and a balance in every part of the universe.
The earth occupies a miniscule part of this vast universe and it too has a perfectly-designed system incorporating extremely complex and delicate balances. Unlike any other known heavenly body, its atmosphere and its surface support life. Water, which covers the biggest part of the earth's surface, is one of the basic elements of life. The temperature range, orbital properties, and surface of the earth all demonstrate that this planet is specifically designed for life.
This unique planet of ours is the home of an incredibly complex and comprehensive vitality. Millions of different plant and animal species live on earth in perfect harmony. This harmony is so perfectly established that it is capable of surviving intact unless deliberately intervened in by human beings.
But how did these systems and living things originate?
When living things on earth are examined, a manifest design is to be observed. Every living thing is furnished with extremely complex systems that enable it to play its role in the overall system to the best of its ability.
Since life is planned, designed, and organized, it certainly must have a Creator. And that Creator has been introducing Himself to mankind since the beginnings of the world. He is Allah, the one and only God, Who created the heavens and the earth from nothing and Who fashioned everything therein.
The theory of evolution that was advanced in the 19th century denies this evident fact of creation. This theory holds that the species on earth were not created by God but came into being as a result of processes governed entirely by chance.
The founder of this theory was an amateur naturalist named Charles Darwin. Darwin expounded this theory in his book The Origin of Species, which was published in 1859.
Darwin's book was an instant success. But its popularity was due more to the ideological implications of the book rather than its scientific worth. Darwin's ideas provided considerable support for the materialistic philosophy, which denied the existence of God. The founder of dialectical materialism, Karl Marx dedicated his book Das Kapital to Darwin and wrote on the cover: "To Charles Darwin, From a devoted admirer".
Darwin's theory argued that all species descended from a common ancestor by means of little cumulative changes at long periods of time. Darwin could advance no sound evidence to prove this claim. Indeed he was himself aware of the great many facts that invalidated his theory. He admitted these in his book in a chapter entitled "Difficulties on Theory". Darwin's hope was that these difficulties would be overcome by new scientific discoveries. But in fact, advances in science would refute Darwin's claims one by one.
Darwin proposed that all species evolved successively from a common ancestor.
But how did that first living thing come into being?
Darwin did not address this question at all in his book. He was not even aware that this point was one of the biggest refutations of his theory. The primitive understanding of science in his day assumed that life had a very simple structure. According to a theory called "spontaneous generation", which was popular since the medieval age, it was believed that living things could easily arise from non-living matter. It was commonly thought that frogs spontaneously arose from mud and bugs from food leftovers. And some curious experiments were designed to prove these theories. A handful of wheat was left on a rag and mice were expected to arise from the mixture.
The maggots on meat were also taken as evidence that life could generate from non-living matter. But later it was understood that such maggots did not form spontaneously but that they emerged from microscopic larvae deposited on the meat by flies.
And in Darwin's time, the belief that microbes could emanate easily from non-living materials was very common.
But five years after the publication of The Origin of Species, the famous French biologist Louis Pasteur scientifically refuted these myths that lay ground for evolution. Pasteur, after lengthy studies and experiments, reached this very important conclusion
Can matter organize itself? No. Today there is no circumstance known under which one could affirm that microscopic beings have come into the world without parents resembling themselves. (Louis Pasteur, Fox & Dose, Origin of Life, p. 4-5)
The first evolutionist to take up the issue of the origin of life in the 20th century was the Russian biologist Alexander Oparin. His aim was to explain how the first living cell, the alleged common ancestor of all living beings according to
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@DonLeVisi but DNA doesn't work this way it only can lose information. please tell me why do you believe in evolution and correct me if I said anything wrong. thanks
TheMultitube1 3 weeks ago
@DonLeVisi I am educated.I am not against science at all I am just against some ideas of evolution. you have no right to tell me that I have an'' immaturely developed brain''. I am only against that apes evolved to humans. until now i did'nt see any solid proof for evolution. I can believe that that creatures can change but not to a different creature. if you research the theory of evolution you will see that every thing started basic then to complex.
TheMultitube1 3 weeks ago
here I'm watching every part of the video & the full documentary is on the same channel.
cosmosmonger 3 weeks ago
@DiGa25 Inductive reasoning can't even be applied correctly to 'creationism'.
There is no valid evidence for creationism to even induce the idea of creationism from.
Someone can not say, "life as we know it, is evidence for creationism." That isn't inductive reasoning; that is taking a huge leap of faith from A to Z with a complete absence in determining B,C,D,.....W,X,Y,
DonLeVisi 1 month ago
@TheMultitube1 Please, educate yourself. Your comments read as those from a very immaturely developed brain.
DonLeVisi 1 month ago
@DonLeVisi You're right, creation might not seem logical, that depends on the type of logical argument you use. Most sciences apply a 'deductive logical' argument. Creation is more logical than evolution in an 'inductive logical' argument. This type of logical arguments is commonly used in some geology studies (e.g. fieldwork) and in forensic and criminal investigation science where e.g. your finger print is LOGICALLY considered an evidence of your previous presence in the crime scene
DiGa25 1 month ago
lol. origins of species is just a theory. people who want to deny God will accept any theory. another point is that if humans evolved from the neanderthal man.. why do we still have chimps and gorillas and monkeys today?. Evolution doesn't make logical sense. I mean how can someones mutations of blood clots develop over time, it does not come in stages otherwise we would have bled to death. its like saying, i'll feel pain before i have developed brain cells to feel pain.
ahbedinnumbernine 1 month ago
No, atheism has existed long before any idea of evolution. Example : Diderot. Atheists don't have a problem not having answers, we'd rather admit we don't know than pretend we do.
But evolution is scientific fact and if you don't accept it you belong in the same category as flat-earthists. There's no discution about this.
This video proves nothing, it's not science, those morons are not scientists, they do not understand science and this isn't a scientific journal.
ivanlagrossemoule 1 month ago
@ivanlagrossemoule firstly if evoulution is WRONG so athesim is WRONG because without it they would have no answer to the origin of life. evoulution. secondly, i read darwins book but he based his ideas on some false incorrect scientfic knowldge that was there at the time. lastly, there is no real evidence for evolution. did you know why alot of people and scientists supported darwin's idea at that time because it went against the CHURCH not because its scientific value. this video proves it
TheMultitube1 1 month ago
@TheMultitube1 First off, evolution has nothing to do with atheism. Atheism is the lack of religion. Evolution is a scientific theory and a fact.
If you want to question science, first get a scientific education. Then all you have to do is publish the evidence against evolution in a scientific paper. But not a single person was able to do that in 150 years. It's because there's no evidence against evolution, whether you accept it or not.
ivanlagrossemoule 1 month ago