We saw how there is no such thing as "an ape that evolved into a human".. and that every lineage has its own independent ancestors in the tree of evolution.. and sometimes two lineages or more share a common ancestor..
And we saw that there is no such thing as "survival of the strongest".. Survival is "of the fittest".. meaning of the one most able to reproduce...
And we saw how the materialists told us "Darwin's book proved the non-existence of a creator and there is not a single wrong letter in it".. and the religious told us "the book is entirely wrong and empty talk.. and there is a creator and there is no evolution".. and how the two teams collided with one another..
The materialists said to "Darwin": "You are an atheist.. bravo to you.." and the religious said to him "You are an atheist.. you will go to hell and the curse will fall upon you"..
And the real "Darwin".. was lost between them in the middle...
But "Darwin" had prepared a surprise for the two teams in his book "On the Origin of Species".. when it turned out that he had sealed the book with a passage on the last page saying:
"There is grandeur in this view of life.. with all its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one"
"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one"..
Meaning Darwin believed in the existence of a creator who breathes the soul and instils life.. and believed in evolution at the same time?
The evolutionists came out to us, headed in our current era by Dr. "Dawkins".. and they told us
"No.. it's just that his wife was a bit religious.. so he wrote this line so she wouldn't say anything"..
Meaning in short they are telling us that Darwin sat writing a book for 20 years.. denying the existence of God.. and then demolished it with the last passage because he was afraid of "the missus"..
After a while the same people found their talk idiotic.. so they went back and said "No, he did this to ward off the evil of the church"..
Even though "Darwin" did not highlight this passage to those of the clergymen who declared him an infidel, nor did he try to debate with them in the first place.. His whole aim, he and a group of those who understood his theory, was to save people and scientists from the trap of the ongoing religious-irreligious conflict.. and to direct them to the fact that this is a scientific theory.. not a theory to prove the existence of God or to deny it...
So in reality "Darwin" recorded the foundations of evolution and researched them for 20 years.. and remained a believer..
And at the same moment there were mathematicians who, as we saw, told us "the hypothesis that a single cell formed by chance.. is scientifically an impossible hypothesis"..
Meaning these mathematicians knew that life did not arise by chance.. and yet many of them denied the existence of God..
And I bet you that many of those who reject the theory of evolution because they believe Darwin was an atheist.. will not accept it either.. after they learn that he believed in the existence of a god...
So the issue is not a story of evolution.. nor of Darwin.. nor has science proven or disproven.. the matter of faith or its absence.. the matter is internal and has nothing to do with the scientific theories that the religious and the atheists wrangle over..
What is infuriating is that after "Darwin's" death.. new editions of his book began to have the word "the Creator" deleted from them.. I don't know whether this is stubbornness or what exactly, and what its use is.. but the sentence became "the life that was breathed"..
This is something I do not understand at all.. Believe or deny.. you are free.. What is the point of falsifying history to prove that you are right? And to prove it to whom??
And is your cause that shaky.. whether faith or atheism.. that you need to prove it all the time and keep confirming its correctness?
It is acceptable to a religious person for you to tell him "all creatures are from one clay".. but he utterly refuses for you to tell him "from one origin".. And it is acceptable to a materialist for him to tell you: "Nature formed itself by itself and creatures and complex cells were made by chance".. but if you brought him a picture of a mountain carved in the shape of a cat.. he would tell you "this is Photoshop, you idiot.. how could this complex shape be made on its own"..
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What the two teams have done across time has caused a terrible disorder.. because today there are students in scientific faculties.. who do not understand what they are studying.. and who see an imaginary clash between the science they are studying and the religion they embrace.. which has driven them, pushed them, to throw themselves into the arms of terrorism.. because in their view "Satan has taken control of the world".. and "science has become disbelief"...
I don't know when this idiocy will end.. Even schools teach Darwinism wrongly in most countries of the Middle East...
In any case... "Darwin's" faith or his atheism does not concern me.. he is not coming to propose to me.. What concerns me is his theory and his science..
And the important thing is that the theory came to light.. and we have indeed seen common ancestors in the fossil record.. for many species.. such as lizards and snakes.. and the dolphin and the whale.. and crocodiles and dinosaurs.. and we learned that there are common ancestors that Darwin did not speak about.. and he did not speak about man's ancestor nor his attributes.. and he walked along the edge of this subject and avoided it completely...
We repeat what the theory put forward: you did not evolve into your cousin.. you are both relatives with one origin and common ancestors..
The year 1882 comes.. and "Darwin" dies of heart failure.. and time passed and we entered the era of the electron microscope and DNA.. and we discovered more things.. and we discovered that we may never know the shape of these ancestors at all..
The truth is that across the centuries.. we have lost parts of the codes of our DNA.. and replaced them with others and our code changed.. and was modified and evolved.. and today it has become very different from the original.. and scientists came in 2015 and told us: that we have strange genes.. that we did not inherit from the ancestors...and that we have a missing link between our DNA and the tree of evolution..
And science is still researching the missing links in all species, in the genome or in the fossil record.. and searching for them.. and trying to complete the tree...
Among the applications of the theory of evolution today is the study of bacteria that have developed immunity to antibiotics.. the study of agricultural pests that have evolved and become resistant to pesticides.. the synthesis of enzymes..
Culturing strains of mould and algae that produce antibiotics in laboratories.. and synthesising the antibiotics themselves in the laboratory..
We learned that smoking and radiation and toxins change the strands of our DNA and pass deformities on to our children.. We learned how a virus like AIDS copies itself and multiplies, and we study what methods we can use to prevent its entry into the cell.. or to stop the process of copying..
The making and synthesising of natural flavours and colours that are put on your food every day.. growing vegetables and fruits in summer and winter.. eliminating cancers and viruses and artificial insemination..
And applications without limit in molecular biology and hereditary diseases...
Darwin still had a lot ahead of him to learn and to know.. but he spoke within the limits of the science of his age.. and he succeeded.. and he gave us a nucleus from which to start moving and to reach what we have reached today...
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