Discover Islam, - Atoms that come alive

Atoms are the building blocks of both animate organisms as well as
inanimate objects. Since atoms are inanimate particles, it evokes
extreme astonishment that they are the building blocks of living
beings. This is an issue evolutionists can never explain.
Just as it is impossible to imagine pieces of stone coming together to
form living organisms, it is impossible to imagine inanimate atoms
coming together by themselves to form living organisms. Think about a
lump of rock and a butterfly -- one is inanimate, the other is
animate. Yet, when we delve into their essences, we see that both are
made up of the same sub-atomic particles.
The following example may elucidate the impossibility of inanimate
matter transforming by itself into animate matter in a better way: Can
aluminum fly? No. If we mix aluminum with plastic and gasoline, can it
fly? Of course it still cannot. Only if we bring these materials
together in a way so as to form an airplane, can they fly. So, what
makes an airplane fly? Is it the wings, the engine or the pilot? None
of these can fly by themselves. In fact, an airplane is manufactured
by the assemblage in a special design consisting of different pieces
each of which has no ability to fly. The ability to fly is derived
neither from aluminum, nor plastic, nor gasoline. The specifications
of these substances are important, but the ability to fly can only be
gained by bringing these substances together in a very special design.
Living systems are no different. A living cell is formed by the
arrangement of inanimate atoms in a very special design. Faculties of
living cells such as growth, reproduction and others are results of
perfect design rather than the properties of molecules. The design we
find at this point is only Allaah's creating the living from the dead.
Allaah Says )what means(:"Indeed, Allaah is the cleaver of grain and
the date seed. He brings the living out of the dead and brings the
dead out of the living. That is Allaah; so how are you deluded?"]Quran
6:95[
When the Theory of Evolution was advanced in the middle of the 19th
century CE, scientific research conducted with primitive microscopes
had created the impression that the cell was just a simple lump of
matter. However, in the 20th century CE, observation and research made
using advanced instruments and electron microscopes revealed that the
cell has an extremely complex structure that could only have been
formed as a result of perfect design. Most importantly, research
showed that it is absolutely impossible for life to arise
spontaneously out of inanimate matter. The source of life is life
alone -- a fact has been proved experimentally too. This is a problem
evolutionists can never resolve.
It is for this reason that renowned evolutionary scientists find
themselves in a great impasse and instead of presenting solid
scientific evidence, resort to telling hypothetical 'tales' which
amount to nothing but window-dressing. They put forward completely
illogical and unscientific claims that matter has a consciousness,
ability and will of its own. However, they themselves do not believe
these absurd tales and are eventually forced to confess that the main
questions that need to be answered cannot be answered scientifically:
"The outstanding evolutionary mystery now is: how matter has
originated and evolved, why it has taken its present form in the
Universe and on the earth, and why it is capable of forming itself
into complex living sets of molecules." ]C. D. Darlington, Evolution
for Naturalists, )NY, John Wiley, 1980( p. 15[
As the evolutionary scientist quoted above confesses, the basic
purpose of the Theory of Evolution is to deny that Allaah )God(
created living beings. This is the scenario claimed by evolutionists,
describing the transformation of inanimate and unconscious atoms into
animate organisms, and most significantly, into people with high
levels of consciousness and intelligence: "After the Big Bang, atoms,
containing precisely balanced forces, somehow brought themselves into
being...These atoms first transformed themselves into cells with
highly complex structures and then produced copies of the cells they
formed by splitting into two, after which they started speaking and
hearing. Subsequently, these atoms transformed into university
professors viewing themselves under the electron microscope and
claiming that they came into being coincidentally..."
It is possible to prolong this story but let us stop here and see
whether unconscious atoms can spontaneously form the DNA molecule, the
cornerstone of life and proteins.
DNA )Deoxyribonucleic Acid(, which is located in the nucleus of a cell
contains the codes carrying the information that controls the
formation of all organs and characteristics of the body. This code is
so complex that scientists were only able to translate it )to a very
limited extent( as late as the 1940s. Proteins are the building blocks
of living beings and play a key role in many vital functions of the
organism.
DNA is a series of nucleotides arranged in a special sequence. A
protein is a series of amino acids arranged again in a special
sequence. First of all, it is mathematically impossible for either DNA
molecules or protein molecules that come in thousands of different
types to sort out the appropriate sequences necessary for life by
chance. Probabilistic calculations reveal that the probability of even
the simplest protein molecules achieving the right sequence by chance
is zero. In addition to this mathematical impossibility, there is also
an important chemical obstacle to the coincidental formation of these
molecules. If the relationship between DNA and protein were a result
of time, chance and natural processes, then there would be some sort
of chemical affinity of DNA and protein to react, as acids and bases
have a great tendency to react. In that case, if chance had really
played a role, a whole host of other natural chemical reactions would
occur among any random fragments of DNA and protein and the living
beings we see today would not have formed.
Just as the entire Universe was created from nothing, so were living
beings created from nothing. Just as only nothing can come into
existence out of nothing by chance, inanimate matter cannot combine by
chance to form living beings. Only Allaah, Possessor of Infinite
Power, Infinite Wisdom and Infinite Knowledge, has the power to do all
these. Allaah Says )what means(:"Indeed your Lord is Allaah, who
created the Heavens and Earth in six days and then established Himself
above the Throne. He covers the night with the day )another night(
chasing it rapidly; and )He created( the sun, the moon, and the stars,
subjected by His command. Unquestionably, His is the creation and the
command; blessed is Allaah, Lord of the worlds."]Quran 7:54[