It Is Almighty Allah Who Bestows Life on the Cell — How the Miracle of DNA Invalidates the Theory of Evolution

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For a moment, forget all the impossibilities described so far. Assume that a protein molecule did form under the primeval Earth's most unsuitable conditions.

The formation of a single protein will not be enough. It will have to wait for other proteins, just like itself, to emerge by chance in this uncontrolled environment, until millions of the appropriate proteins needed for producing the cell all form alongside one another, in the same place. Those that form first must wait patiently, suffering no damage from ultraviolet rays or mechanical abrasion, until the others appear, also by chance. Then these proteins, in the right quantities in the same place, must combine in meaningful forms to give rise to the cell's organelles. Meanwhile, no foreign substances, harmful molecules or functionless proteins must infiltrate themselves. And even if these organelles did manage to combine in an exceedingly ordered, harmonious and interconnected way, absorbing all the necessary enzymes and being enclosed in a membrane-and if that membrane's interior were filled with a special fluid that constitutes the ideal environment-could that collection of molecules then come to life?

No, because as research shows, in order for life to begin, it's not enough for all the needed substances to be present together. Even if you place all the proteins necessary for life in a test tube, still you cannot obtain a living cell. All the experiments in this area have failed; all experiments and observations show that life comes only from life. The claim that life emerged by chance from inanimate substances is a myth that conflicts with all observations and experiments, and which exists only in evolutionists' dreams.

Bacterial DNA Refutes The Myth of The Primitive Cell

Much as the theory of evolution seeks to organize life according to a transition from the primitive to the more advanced, it assumes that bacteria are primitive cells and that multi-celled organisms evolved from them. However, single-celled organisms are not primitive at all, as evolutionists wish to believe. On the contrary, a bacterium has a structure so complex as to astonish anyone examining it. Professor of zoology James Grey states: A bacterium is far more complex than any inanimate system known to man. There is not a laboratory in the world which can compete with the biochemical activity of the smallest living organism.1

1. Chromosome
2. Ribosomes
3. Plasmid

4. Pilus
5. Capsule Layer
6. Cell Wall

7. Cell Membrane
8. Cytoplasm
9. Flagellum

Any change in a bacterium's DNA will be so significant as to impair the bacterium's entire system. A flaw in bacteria's genetic codes will mean the impairment of its operating systems, and therefore death. Even a single bacterium is one of the evident proofs of the existence of Allah, Who reveals in the Qur'an that:

... Whom not even the weight of the smallest particle eludes, either in the heavens or in the Earth; nor is there anything smaller or larger than that which is not in a Clear Book. (Surah Saba, 3)

1- Sir James Gray, Science Today, 1961, p. 21.
2- Mahlon B. Hoagland, The Origins of Life, p. 25.
3- Lee M. Spetner, Not By Chance, Shattering The Modern Theory of Evolution, The Judaica Press Inc., 1997, p. 24.

Chandra Wickramasinghe, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University, spent decades convinced that life was born by chance:

From my earliest training as a scientist, I was very strongly brainwashed to believe that science cannot be consistent with any kind of deliberate creation. That notion has had to be painfully shed. At the moment, I can't find any rational argument to knock down the view which argues for conversion to God. We used to have an open mind; now we realize that the only logical answer to life is creation-and not accidental random shuffling.244

In that case, the first life on Earth can only have come from the creation of Allah, the Lord of Life. Life begins, continues and comes to an end only through His willing it. Evolution, on the other hand, cannot explain how the materials necessary for life formed and combined with one another, let alone to explain how life itself began. In the Qur'an, our Lord asks:

Is He Who creates like him who does not create? So will you not pay heed? If you tried to number Allah's blessings, you could never count them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. Allah knows what you keep secret and what you make public. Those you call on besides Allah do not create anything. They are themselves created. (Surat an-Nahl, 17-20)

Footnotes

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206. Ibid., p. 270.

207. Charles B. Thaxton, Walter L. Bradley, Roger L. Olsen, The Mystery of Life's Origin, Reassessing Current Theories, Lewis and Stanley, Teksas, 2nd edition, 1992, p. 57.

208. Duane T. Gish, Creation Scientists Answer Their Critics, Institute for Creation Research, 1993, USA, p 270.

209. Charles B. Thaxton, Walter L. Bradley, Roger L. Olsen, The Mystery of Life's Origin, p. 103.

210. Duane T. Gish, Creation Scientists Answer Their Critics, p. 275.

211. Nicholas Wade, "Life's Origins Get Murkier and Messier; Genetic Analysis Yields Intimations of a Primordial Commune", New York Times, 13 June 2000.

212. Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, The Free Press, New York, 1996, pp. 172-173.

213. Werner Gitt, In the Beginning was Information.

214. Peter Radetsky, "The Crucible of Life", Earth, February 1998, pp. 34-41.

215. W. R. Bird, The Origin of Species Revisited, Thomas Nelson Co., Nashville, 1991, p. 325.

216. Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, p. 171.

217. Werner Gitt, In the Beginning was Information, pp. 126-127.

218. Paul Davies, "How We Could Create Life", Guardian, 11 December 2002; http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,857635,00.html

219. Michael Pitman, Adam and Evolution, 1984, p. 233.

220. Jeffrey S. Wicken, "The Generation of Complexity in Evolution: A Thermodynamic and Information-Theoretical Discussion", Journal of Theoretical Biology, April 1979, Vol. 77, p. 349.

221. Robert Shapiro, Origins: A Sceptics Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth, Summit Books, New York, 1986. p. 207.

222. Lee M. Spetner, Not By Chance, Shattering The Modern Theory of Evolution, p. 50.

223. Ibid., p. 60.

224. Ibid.

225. Ibid., p. 57.

226. M. P. Schutzenberger, Mathematical Challenges in the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, 1967, pp. 73-75.

227. Lee Spetner, Not By Chance, Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution, p. 180.

228. Pierre-P Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms, p. 103.

229. Walter L. Starkey, The Cambrian Explosion, p. 157.

230. Ibid., p.158.

231. Ibid.

232. Werner Gitt, In the Beginning was Information, p. 127.

233. Phillip E. Johnson, The Wedge of Truth, pp. 46-47.

234. Stephen Jay Gould, "Is a New and General Theory of Evolution Emerging?", Lecture at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, 4 February 1980.

235. Walter L. Starkey, The Cambrian Explosion, p. 159.

236. Ibid.

237. Ibid.

238. Ibid.

239. Phillip E. Johnson, The Wedge of Truth, p. 127.

240. Pierre-Paul Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms, p. 97.

241. Walter L. Starkey, The Cambrian Explosion, p. 157.

242. Gerald L. Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God, p. 99.

243. Pierre-Paul Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms, p. 88.

244. Chandra Wickramasinghe, Interview in London Daily Express, 14 August 1981.