APPENDIX:

In this section of the book, we will examine some ideas held by evolutionists, who do not believe in Allah's existence and who try to deceive others by claiming that everything came into being by itself, by chance.

But when someone attempts to deceive someone else, the truth will always come out in the end. If the person involved is intelligent, he will always be aware he is being lied to. And because evolutionists tell lies they are inconsistent. In the following pages we will see how irrational their claims are, and how their deceit has been revealed.

WHAT IS THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION?

The theory of evolution is one of those mistaken ideas put forward by people who do not believe in the existence of Allah. It was Charles Darwin who originally proposed this theory, some 150 years ago. According to this illogical theory, everything came into existence by spontaneous, chance occurrences. For example, according to Darwin, one day, fish turned into reptiles by chance. Another day, another chance event occurred and a reptile turned into a bird and started to fly. As for human beings, they are descended from apes. There is absolutely no truth to this claim. The only truth is that Allah created us, all other living things, the world and the universe. Darwin and others who have made his claim have told a great lie.

Atoms are the smallest particles of which all matter, animate and inanimate, is made up. This means that everything around you, including yourself, has been formed by the coming together of millions of atoms. Evolutionists (those who believe that Darwin was right) say that atoms decided by chance to come together, and that living things thus came into being. According to this illogical claim, one day, a violent wind or a hurricane arose and these atoms all joined together.

According to Darwin's scenario, these atoms joined up to make cells. As you know, every living thing is made up of cells. These then combine to make our eyes, ears, blood, heart, and in short, all of our bodies.

You should keep in mind that cells are very complex systems. In every cell, there are many different organelles. We can compare the cell to an enormous factory. In a cell, there are manufacturers, transporters for the materials, entrance and exit gates, production centers, message carriers, energy control centers, etc. Is it possible for a factory to come into existence all by itself, with stones, soil and water coming together after a storm, and for all of this to happen by chance? Of course not! Everyone would laugh at such a ridiculous claim. Nevertheless, evolutionists make a claim that is just as ridiculous by saying, "The cell formed by chance."

Evolutionists would have us believe that these cells formed living things when they came together by some kind of chance.

Let Evolutionists Carry Out An Experiment!

Lifeless matter can never come together by chance to form a living creature. Allah has created the universe and all living things from nothing.

Let evolutionists get hold of a huge barrel. Allow them to put inside this barrel all the atoms that they wish. Permit them to put inside the barrel whatever else their hearts desire. Let them put inside the barrel all the raw materials necessary to make a living thing. Then they can either warm up or electrify this barrel. Allow them to do whatever they want, and as much as they want. They can keep watch over the barrel for millions of years. (They can hand this task down to younger evolutionists, as one lifetime will not be nearly long enough for the job.)

What would happen as a result of all this?

Do you think that cherries, melons, strawberries, plums, violets, roses, elephants, giraffes, lions, lambs, rabbits, bees, cats, dogs, squirrels, and fish could possibly emerge from this barrel? Could a person who thinks, who becomes happy or excited, who enjoys listening to music and reading books possibly step out of it? Of course not! Neither could anyone like the professors keeping watch over the barrel emerge. Not only could not one single professor not emerge, but not even one of the trillions of cells in such a professor's body.

Atoms are lifeless. Can lifeless matter come together to produce a living, laughing, thinking being?

Of course not; no living thing could ever emerge from that barrel. Because living things aren't made up of pieces of lifeless matter coming together by chance. Allah created all living things. Allah created humans, mountains, lakes, lambs, lions and flowers when there was nothing at all in existence, and He has created everything from nothingness just by giving the command "Be!"

HOW, ACCORDING TO EVOLUTIONISTS, DO LIVING THINGS EVOLVE?

Allah created all species, and not one of these species can evolve from another. This is because each species has its own unique characteristics.

However, the theory of evolution is wrong in its claim that that living things evolved over time, developed different features and changed into other creatures. You've all seen turtles, lizards, snakes; evolutionists make the nonsensical claim that these reptiles changed by chance and turned into birds.

So, what are these events that they claim caused the reptile to change into another creature? Evolutionists believe that evolution takes place as a result of two separate events that occur simultaneously, called "mutation" and "natural selection." This, actually, is an illogical belief and one which has no scientific basis.

What Is Natural Selection?

There are countless species of living things in the world. Evolutionists will never be able to explain how these various species came to be. This is one of the best examples of Allah's creative artistry.

The simplest explanation of natural selection is that the fittest creatures survive, while the weak disappear. Let's explain this with an example: Think of a herd of deer, which are often attacked by wild animals. When that happens, the deer will start to run fast, and only the fastest running and most agile deer will survive. Gradually, weak and slow deer will completely disappear, as the predators hunt them down. There will only be healthy and strong deer left. Therefore, after some time, the herd will only consist of fit deer.

What we have said so far is quite correct, but these things have nothing to do with evolution. In spite of this, evolutionists believe that such a herd of deer could gradually develop into another kind of animal, giraffes for example. You can see how wrong they are! No matter how fast a deer runs, or how far it extends its neck upwards, it cannot turn into another creature, a lion or a giraffe, for example. This can only happen in fairy tales.You probably all know the story about the frog that turns into a prince. The only time a frog can turn into a prince is in a fairy tale. However, in real life it is impossible for a deer to change into a lion or another living thing. And yet evolutionists still keep insisting that they can!

What Does Mutation Mean?

Mutations are the adverse changes that take place in a living body. Radiation or chemical substances cause mutations. The effects of radiation and chemical substances on living things are always harmful. Nearly 60 years ago, during the Second World War, an atom bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The atom bomb spread radiation around the area, and this caused terrible harm to people. The radiation caused most of the people exposed to it either to become seriously ill or else to die. Moreover, it destroyed some of their bodily systems, and this in turn caused their children to be born either sick or crippled.

So, with such disastrous events in mind, this is what evolutionists would have us believe: One day a fish undergoes a mutation; for example, it is affected, as the people of Hiroshima were, by being exposed to radiation or something similar. As a result of this mutation, some changes take place in the fish's body and, one day, it turns into a crocodile. This is a totally ridiculous claim. Furthermore, as we mentioned above, mutations are always harmful to living creatures. They either cripple them or make them very sick.

... He has no partner in the Kingdom. He created everything and determined it most exactly. (Surat al-Furqan: 2)

We can compare evolutionists' claims with the following example: If you took hold of an axe and hit a black and white television with it, could you change that television into a colour one? Of course not! If you randomly hit a television with an axe, you will merely end up with a smashed set. In the same way that hitting something haphazardly with an axe will inevitably damage it, so mutations harm living beings.

FOSSILS THAT EVOLUTIONISTS JUST CAN'T SEEM TO FIND

Under the layers of the earth's crust we can find the remains of creatures that lived in the past. These remains are called fossils and they disprove all the claims made by evolutionists.

A fossil is a part of an animal or a plant that has been dead for a very long time-usually thousands or even millions of years. It is preserved in rock formations in the earth's crust. In order for a plant or an animal to become a fossil, it must be buried almost immediately after it dies. For example, if there were a bird on the ground and a heap of sand suddenly fell on it and killed it, the remains of this bird could be preserved for millions of years. Similarly, there is a resin of some trees that becomes fossilized by geological processes, in which case it is then called "amber." On occasions in the past, this resin trapped insects, as it flowed down the tree trunks. It then solidified, and the amber and the insects inside it have been preserved without damage for millions of years, right up until today. This helps us to learn a lot about creatures that lived long ago. Such preserved remains of one species or another are called fossils.

Allah created every animal from water. Some of them go on their bellies, some of them on two legs, and some on four. Allah creates whatever He wills. Allah has power over all things. (Surat an-Nur: 45)

What Does "A Transitional Form" Fossil Mean?

Evolutionists claim, for example, that starfish developed over millions of years and turned into fish. According to this claim, there should be many "transitional forms" to be found between starfish and fish. But no fossil of such a transitional form has yet been found. There are starfish and there are fish in the fossil record, but there is no transitional form made up of strange-looking combinations of both.

The most important falsehood that evolutionists invent is that of "transitional forms." In some evolutionist books, these are sometimes called "intermediate transitional forms."

As you know, evolutionists claim that creatures evolve from each other. They also maintain that the first creature came about by chance. They would have us believe that gradually that creature changed into another, and that other creature turned into yet another, and so on.

Countless fossils of fish and starfish have been found. But, contrary to the fabrications of evolutionists, no fossil of a transitional stage has been found showing a starfish in the process of changing into a fish.

Evolutionists say that fish, for example, are descended from a creature that resembled a starfish. This means that one day, due to mutation, a starfish lost one of its arms. Over the next millions of years it lost more of its arms, except for some that started developing into fins of their own accord. Meanwhile, and simultaneously, all the other changes that are necessary for a starfish to turn into a fish took place. (Nothing like this could ever have happened, of course, but we are just reminding ourselves of what evolutionists would have us believe!) According to evolutionists, the starfish had to go through many phases to turn into a fish.

Starfish have never changed. They are exactly the same today as they were millions of years ago. This proves that evolutionists have been lying. Above you see a starfish and a 400 million-year-old fossil of a starfish.

So, these imaginary creatures in their transformational stages are called intermediate species in the process of evolution. Again, according to the illogical claims of evolutionists, all of them must have some vestigial or not yet fully formed body parts. For example, the intermediate species which allegedly formed while fish were turning into reptiles must have "half-grown" feet, fins, lungs and gills.

We must remember that if such strange creatures had actually lived in the past, we would certainly have found fossil remains of them. It is interesting that so far not one fossil has been found of the intermediate species that evolutionists claim to have existed.

A picture of a crab living today. (left) A fossil of a crab that lived 150 million years ago (right) There is no difference between the two crabs, is there?

Creatures did not evolve from each other. The truth is that they were all brought into being at some instant, with all their features in tact and with no imperfections. They are no different to members of their species which are alive today. Allah created them all.

WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE CAMBRIAN PERIOD?

The oldest fossils of living things date from the time known as the Cambrian period, some 500 million years ago. The creatures that lived during the Cambrian period also prove that the theory of evolution is completely wrong. How is that?

This creature called a "trilobite" lived in the Cambrian era.

These creatures appeared all of a sudden during the Cambrian period. Before them, no other living things existed on the planet. The fact that these creatures appeared out of nowhere and all of a sudden is proof that Allah created them in a single instant. If the theory proposed by evolutionists were right, then these creatures must have evolved gradually from simpler ancestors. However, these creatures have neither ancestors nor any transitional forms that lived before them. There is absolutely no trace of any such organisms anywhere in the fossil record. Fossils show us that these creatures-just like all other living things-suddenly appeared during the Cambrian period, with all their features in tact, but with no alleged evolutionary ancestors from whom they evolved behind them. This is clearest proof that Allah created them.

For example, there used to be a creature called the trilobite that lived during the Cambrian period, although we can no longer see them now because they are extinct. The trilobite had very complex, but perfect eyes. These were made up of hundreds of honeycomb-shaped cells, and these cells allowed it to see very clearly. It is clear that living things with such wonderful features could not possibly come into existence spontaneously with the help of chance.

THE FALSEHOOD THAT FISH CHANGED INTO REPTILES

Evolutionists say that reptiles evolved from fish. According to them, one day, when food in the sea was scarce, fish decided to look for some on land, and when they were there, they changed into reptiles to be able to survive on land. As you can see, this is an absurd idea, because everybody knows what would happen to fish if they emerged onto the land: They would die!

Have you ever been fishing? Just think! What would happen if a fish took the bait and was hooked on your line and you saved its life and brought it home to have a rest in your backyard? As we have just said, it would die. If you were to go fishing again, and this time caught many fish and brought them all back to your backyard, then what would happen? The same thing: they would all die!

Yet evolutionists refuse to agree. They say that one of the fish in your backyard suddenly started changing while it was waiting to die, and that it turned into a reptile and continued living! That is totally and completely impossible!

It can never be possible because there are a lot of differences between fish and land creatures, and all of these changes cannot just happen suddenly, by chance. Let us list just a few of the things that fish would need to survive on land:

1. Fish use gills to breathe in water. However, on land they cannot breathe with their gills and so they would die if they left the water. They would need to have lungs. Let us just suppose that a fish made up its mind to leave the water and live on dry land: where would it get lungs from? Furthermore, it has no idea of what a lung even is!

2. Fish do not have a kidney system like ours, but they would need one to live on land. If it decided to move onto dry land, it is very clear that a fish would not be able to find kidneys for itself anywhere.

3. Fish do not have feet, which is why they could not walk when they reached the shore. Just how did the first fish that decided to emerge onto dry land find feet for itself? As this is impossible, it is obvious that evolutionists are wrong about this as well.

These are just three of the hundreds of things that fish must have had in order to survive on land.

About the Fish Called the Coelacanth

Evolutionists claim that the coelecanth is a fish that started to change into a reptile. Later, a living coelacanth was discovered and the evolutionists' ruse was uncovered. The coelecanth is a real fish.

For years, evolutionists used to describe a fish called "the coelacanth" as a transitional form that almost made it ashore. In all their books and magazines they portrayed this fish as proof of their theory. They thought that the coelacanth had long since become extinct. That is why they made up a series of false stories when they examined the fossils of this fish.

Then, just a few years ago, a fisherman caught a coelacanth in his net. Since then, many others have been caught. It became obvious that the coelacanth is a normal fish. Furthermore, it wasn't preparing to come ashore, as evolutionists claim. Evolutionists were saying, "This fish lived in very shallow water, and so it was getting ready to go ashore." In reality, the coelacanth lived in very deep water. It wasn't a transitional form as evolutionists wanted us to believe. It was a real fish. Many more evolutionists' false ideas have since been exposed!

THE CLAIM THAT BIRDS EVOLVED FROM REPTILES IS UNTRUE

Another false statement that evolutionists make is about how birds came into existence.

Their tall tale is that reptiles living in trees started to jump from tree to tree, and while they were jumping, they developed wings. Yet another tall tale is that some reptiles trying to catch flies used to run and flap their forearms, and that these forearms turned into wings.

Isn't it ludicrous to imagine a dinosaur developing wings while running? Things like this only happen in stories or in cartoons.

There is an even more important subject. These evolutionists say that this big dinosaur developed its wings when it was trying to catch flies. Well, then how did the fly itself take to the air? Where did its wings come from? When they were trying to explain how a gigantic dinosaur could fly, shouldn't they first have explained how a tiny insect was able to? Of course they should.

But this is the point that evolutionists will never be able to explain. The fly is one of the best flying creatures on earth. It can flap its wings 500 to 1000 times per second. As you know, it can manoeuvre in the air with great ease. No matter how many stories evolutionists tell, they still cannot explain how birds' wings came into being. The truth is this: Allah has created the wings of birds and flies, together with their ability to fly.

Archaeopteryx, Which Evolutionists Call A Transitional Form, Was in Fact A Fully Fledged Bird!

Let us just give you a few of the many differences between reptiles and birds.

1. Birds have wings, but reptiles don't.

2. Birds have feathers, but reptiles have scales.

3. Birds have a unique skeletal system and their bones are hollow. This makes them lighter and makes it easier for them to fly.

The fossil of a bird called Archaeopteryx, that evolutionists tried to portray as an intermediate species, shows that evolution is a theory founded on deceit. This fossil is that of a real bird and shows that birds have not changed for millions of years.

These are just a few differences that immediately come to mind. There are many other differences between these creatures.

If a species of reptile had turned into birds, there ought to have been many creatures that had lived in between the reptiles and the birds representing the phases of this change.

Fossil hunters should have been able to come across at least one of these fossils. That is, there must have been creatures with half wings, half-feathered and half-scaled bodies, and half-beaks and half-mouths, and their fossils should have been found, but no such creature has ever been located among the many fossils on Earth. Those fossils that are found belong either to a complete reptile, or else to a complete bird. This means that birds did not evolve from reptiles. Allah created birds, just as He has created all other living things.

However, since evolutionists don't want to accept this, they try to convince people that what they say is true by inventing stories. They found the fossil of a bird called Archaeopteryx, which lived approximately 150 million years ago, and claimed that this bird was a transitional form between dinosaurs and birds. Yet saying that Archaeopteryx was the ancestor of birds is completely illogical.

Archaeopteryx was a fully fledged bird!

Because:

1. Archaeopteryx had feathers, just like the birds of our own time.

2. Archaeopteryx had the same chest-bone, to which its wings were attached, as other flying birds.

3. Archaeopteryx cannot be the ancestor of all birds, because fossils of birds that are older than it have been found.

THE TALL TALE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Evolutionists maintain that humans evolved from apes, and that apes are therefore our ancestors. Neither Darwin nor any other evolutionists have ever had any proof to back up that claim, which is a complete fabrication.

In fact, one of the reasons that the theory of evolution was thought up in the first place was to try to make people forget that Allah created them. If people believe that they came into existence by chance and that their ancestors were animals, then they will feel no responsibility towards Allah. In turn, this causes them to forget all their religious values and become selfish. Selfish people lose such good feelings as love for their people and their families. You see, evolutionists try to turn people away from such feelings, and that is why they try to spread the theory of evolution. Their aim is to make people forget Allah, so they tell everyone, "Allah did not create you. You are descended from apes, in other words, you are an advanced animal."

Allah created human beings with different languages and with different races and colors. This variety is a wonderful blessing.

In truth, Allah created human beings. Compared to other living things, the human being is the only creature that can speak, think, rejoice and take decisions, is intelligent, can establish civilizations and can communicate at an advanced level. Allah is the One Who has given all these features to human beings.

Evolutionists Cannot Offer Any Proof That Human Beings Are Descended from Apes

In the field of science, it is very important to produce "proof." When you make a claim, and if you want others to believe it, then you have to show some proof. For example, if you introduce yourself to someone and say, "My name is Omar" and that person says, "I do not believe that your name is Omar," then in that case you would have to have some proof that your name really was Omar. What could your proof be? An ID card could represent proof, or a birth certificate, or passport, or maybe your school report card, among other things. If you show one of these to that person, he will believe you are who you say you are.

Now let us give a scientific example. There was a scientist called Isaac Newton who lived in the eighteenth century and who is said to have discovered gravity. When people asked him what made him so sure he replied: "When an apple falls off a tree, it falls to the ground. It doesn't stay in the air." That meant that there is a force pulling the apple to the ground, a force which he called "gravity."

Therefore, evolutionists have to show some proof to make their theories believable. For example, the theory of evolution maintains that man is descended from apes. We therefore need to ask them: Where did you get this idea from, and where is your proof?

If man's ancestors were indeed apes, we should expect to find the fossils of creatures that were half-human and half-ape as confirmation. However, no such fossil has ever been discovered. We have only found the fossils of humans or of apes. This means that evolutionists have absolutely no proof that apes were man's ancestors.

However, evolutionists still try to mislead people with their theories.

Some Tricks of Evolutionists:

1. Evolutionists talk about the fossils of extinct ape species as if they belonged to creatures that were half-human and half-ape.

You have surely seen pictures like the one above somewhere. Evolutionists use these to try to deceive people. The truth is that such creatures have never existed. In the past, there were humans and there were apes, just like today, and these were and are totally separate from and unrelated to one another. None of the half-ape, half-human creatures shown in the drawing on the previous page has ever existed. It can never have happened. As we stated earlier, not one fossil has been found to prove that claim.

However, evolutionists constantly try new tricks on this topic. For example, while handling a fossil that belongs to an extinct species of apes, they claim it actually belonged a creature that was somewhere between apes and humans. As people are often not well informed about this topic, they are prone to believe what evolutionists say.

2. Evolutionists treat the fossils of human beings from different races as if they were actually half-ape, half-human creatures.

As we know, there are many different ethnic groups in the world: Africans, Chinese, Native Americans, Turks, Europeans, Arabs and many others. Obviously, people belonging to different ethnic groups sometimes have different features. For example, the Chinese have almond-shape eyes, and some Africans have very dark skins and very curly hair. When you see a Native American or an Eskimo, you immediately know that they belong to a different ethnic group. In the past, there were many other ethnic groups and some of their features were perhaps different from those of people today. For example, the skulls of people belonging to the Neanderthal race were bigger than the skulls of people living today. Their muscles were also a lot stronger than ours.

Evolutionists, however, use the differences between this race and ours as a way to deceive people. They say, for instance, when they find a Neanderthal skull, "This is the skull of man's ancestors who lived tens of thousands of years ago." Sometimes the fossil skulls found are smaller than the average skull size of human beings today. Pointing to such a skull fossil, evolutionists will say, "The owner of this skull was just at the point of changing from an ape into a human."

In reality, even today there are people belonging to different ethnic groups who have smaller than average skulls. For example, the skull volume of Native Australians (Aborigines) is quite small, but this does not mean that they are half-ape, half-human. They are normal human beings, just like you and everyone else.

Consequently, we can see that the fossils evolutionists portray as proof of human beings having evolved from apes either belong to earlier species of apes or human races that are now extinct. This means that half-human, half-ape creatures have never existed.

THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE

The biggest difference between apes and human beings is that humans have souls and apes don't. Humans have consciousness: they think, speak and convey their thoughts to others in rational sentences, make decisions, feel, develop tastes, know about art, paint, compose songs, sing and are full of love and moral values. All of these faculties are unique to the human soul. Only human beings have these unique features. Evolutionists are unable to answer this question. In order to resemble a human being, an ape would have to go through many physical changes and would have to have the other faculties unique to human beings. Is there any force in nature that can give such abilities as painting, thinking or composing to any ape? Of course not! Allah created only humans with such abilities, and He has not given animals any of these faculties. As we have seen, it is totally impossible for an ape to turn into a human being. Human beings have been human from the day they were created. Fish have always been fish, and birds have always been birds. No creature is the ancestor of another. Allah is the Creator of all human beings and all other living things. The reason that evolutionists claim that the human beings are descended from apes is the physical resemblance between the two. However, other creatures on Earth resemble humans even more closely. For example, the parrot seen in the picture can talk. Octopuses have eyes just like those of human beings. Cats and dogs listen to and follow orders, just like a person. What would you think if someone said that human beings were descended from dogs, parrots, or the octopus? You see, there is no difference between this idea and the stories that evolutionists fabricate.

ALLAH IS THE CREATOR OF ALL

Our Lord is the One Who has put billions of pieces of information into a place so small that we cannot even see it without special equipment.

Allah is the One Who has created us, our eyes, our hair and our feet.

He is also the Creator of our families, parents, brothers and sisters, friends and teachers.

Allah is the One Who has created the food that we love, jams, cereals and pasta, and also the fruits and vegetables that make us healthy and strong. If Allah had not created it, we would never know what strawberry tasted like.

Allah has also given us the senses of taste and smell. If He had not given us these faculties, we would not have been able to taste the things that we eat. It would have been the same whether we ate a potato or a cake. Allah hasn't just created delicious and beautifully scented foods, He has also given us the faculties that allow us to enjoy them.

You like some things, and you enjoy them and think of them as fun. It could be a dessert that you enjoy eating, a game that you enjoy playing, or an outing with people you love. Whatever it is, you must never forget that Allah is the One Who makes it possible for you to enjoy such things.

Since Allah is full of compassion for you, He always gives you pleasant and beautiful things.

To begin with, there was a time when you did not exist. Just think, you were nowhere before you were conceived. You were nothing. Allah created you. He made you out of nothing.

We must therefore be grateful to Allah for each moment of our lives. In everything that we enjoy and love, we must remember Allah, and say, "O Allah I am forever grateful to you for all your blessings." If we find ourselves in a situation that we do not like, we should again pray to Allah, because He is the only One Who can put things right.

Allah always hears our prayers and responds to them. Allah knows what we are thinking in the depths of our hearts; He hears and answers every prayer.

What we have to do is to offer our joyful thanks to our Lord Who created us, the world and all the blessings it contains. And knowing that Allah is always with us, and that He sees us and listens to us at every moment, we must always be on our best behavior.

Glory be to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us. You are the All-Knowing. (Surat al-Baqara: 32)