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INTELLIGENT DESIGN
enjoys the centre stage at a
debate between
CREATIONISTS and
EVOLUTIONISTS...
- A surfer of my web site,
after having read my article
- Microbiology
and the Human Genetics in the Qur'an,
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emailed the following query:
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- have you
done any work or analysis on the issue of
- 'evolution'
vs
'intelligent design'
- my brief response was:
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'evolution' by
'intelligent design'
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he wrote back:
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thanks for your
rather perceptive response...
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this feed back prompted me to reflect and research
further.
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here is my conclusive perspective:
- may the Agency that has been
eternally evolving the species
- also evolve the hearts of the
readers
to appreciate that transcendental process...
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- THE STORY OF CREATION AND
THE EVOLUTION WARS:
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- In the Canadian issue of the TIME
magazine of August 15, 2005, appeared a controversial cover page story. The
subject matter it encompassed, deeply touches the
public school science curriculum in U.S.A. On the bottom left corner
of the title cover appeared the face of a deeply engrossed chimpanzee.
Diagonally opposite to it was a partial image from the famous painting of God's
extended right finger. It was pointed with fury at that spellbound chimpanzee -
the supposed ancestor of ours. In between these two pictures
in the bold prints was the era's solemn question, posed by Claudia Wallis --
the author of a sweltering topic:
The push to
teach "intelligent design" raises a question: Does God have a place in
science class?
Not an easy to answer query for
many. The opening passage of
an
eight page cover story had an eye-catching statement and more questions:
"When Bush joined the fray last week, the question grew hotter: Is
'intelligent design' a real science? And should it be taught in schools?"
- Today, INTELLIGENT DESIGN [ID] enjoys
the centre stage at more than a century old debate between the Creationist
and the Evolutionist.
What is this "Intelligent Design"?
- The Time magazine has briefly but aptly summarized
[ID] as:
"The assertion that some features of living things
are best explained as the work of a designer rather than as the result of a
random process like natural selection."
- The decision by the Kansas Board of
Education to expunge references to evolution from science standards in
Kansas was predominantly influenced by advocates of [ID] theory.
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- Below are two selected excerpts from the two
leading TEXTBOOKS, reproduced by TIME:
- "Darwin made bold assumptions about
heritable variations, the age of Earth and relationships among organisms.
New data from genetics, physics and biochemistry could have proved him wrong
on many counts. They didn't. Scientific evidence supports the theory that
the living species descended with modification from common ancestors that
lived in the ancient past." (p. 410)
- Biology by Kenneth Miller and
Joseph Levine, Prentice Hall. 1,146 pages.
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- "Intelligent design means that
various forms of life began abruptly through an intelligent agency, with
their distinctive features already intact -- fish with fins and scales,
birds with feathers, beaks and wings, etc. Some scientists have arrived at
this view since fossil forms first appear in the rock record with their
distinctive features intact, rather than gradually developing." (pp.
99-100)
- Of Pandas and People by Percival
Davis and Dean Kenyon, Haughton Publishing, 170 pages.
- THE BOOK OF GENESIS AND THE
STORY OF CREATION:
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- The authorship of Genesis, the
first book of the Pentateuch ("five rolls" of Torah) -- that has the
biblical account of the Creation Story, is attributed to Prophet Moses. Some
bible editors tell us that Moses probably wrote the original Torah in
the wilderness of Sinai in the year 1513 B.C. The historians record that
these rolls of
Pentateuch were lost and are re-written. The Book of
GENESIS (the Greek word meaning "Origin", "Birth"), that
we read today is the work of more than
one writer. More prominently, the Yahwistic Text was written in Judah in the time
of David or Solomon. And, that primary text has been overlaid with the Elohistic Text
which
was written in Israel,
after the disruption of the old Solomonic Kingdom. Consequently, we do find the
repetition of the historical events, including the Story of Creation by God. The sequences for the Creation of Man recorded in the
opening chapter is reversed, with no explanation given, when the narrative
is repeated in the
ensuing chapter.
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- Most of the information contained in this First Book of
the Bible relates to the events that took place prior to the birth of Moses.
And in the final chapter of the Fifth Book of Moses appears an event that
happened after Moses was laid to rest in the ground.
One may argue that the Creator Himself may have inspired His Prophet to write the Creation Story. Moses
may not have written
the Original Text or the one that we read, but the
information could have been verbally transmitted and reduced into writing
by the generations that followed.
- These abnormalities have not dampened
the opinions of the Creationists whose arguments are solely based upon Genesis.
The Book expounds that the God, working continuously from Monday to Saturday completed the process of Creation
and then took a day off to rest.
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- Before the advent of Islam, the Story of Genesis enjoyed the unchallenged superiority
for the accounts of Creation and the Species that have existed
on this earth. However, there did exist the Pagan beliefs as well
as an ancient account, some what similar to Genesis, that was preserved on
the tablets and within
pictorial
hieroglyphics by Accadians of Babylonia. These ancient records did not get
publicity and the Biblical accounts remained authoritative. Please
refer to Eaton's Bible Dictionary, Illustrated third edition, 1897
for the details of the Ninevite Tablets and the pictorial writings by Accads
- a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian
conquest. Today, the Qur'an (Koran) - a widely circulated scripture, has presented before mankind
an alternate account for the Creation of the Heavens and Earth and the
Species. The Verses from Qur'an, quoted little later in the
article, reveals the
details and information concerning the act of Creation that are no where
recorded in the earlier scriptures or in the books written by the teachers of astronomy. The Qur'an speaks of the Origin of the Heavens with their
celestial bodies swimming within their own orbits and also of the winding up of
the Heavens and recreating them again. The scientists of the nineteenth
century have advocated a theory that our Universe pulsates like a pendulum.
The explosion of the galaxies that started with the Big Bang may come to an
end and they may begin receding. The estimated time period for that Big
Crunch, which may not be correct in time frame, is being predicted. This demonstrates that the Archer - the
Author of the Qur'an, had thrown His arrow and it had hit the target when the
bull's-eye was obscure and unknown to mankind. Similarly, we also find within the Qur'an
the Creation of living species from water, their extinctions and the repeated
creations. These scientific revelations reduced into writings centuries
ahead of their times prove that bull's-eye was NOT PAINTED around tip of the
arrow, wherever
the Archer's arrow had found its mark...
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- Firstly, we shall observe the lighter side of the
ongoing debate between the Creationist and Evolutionist and then the recent
serious scientific discoveries that have pushed back the
Darwin's widely propagated Hypothesis for Micro-evolutions, Adaptive
Mutations, etc.
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- A LIVELY DEBATE BETWEEN A
CREATIONIST AND AN EVOLUTIONIST:
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- The clergyman was Samuel
Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford. He was a great public favorite, the
producer of a stream of such smooth and oily sermons that he was
nicknamed "Soapy Sam."... The events at which he was slated to demolish
Darwin was the annual meeting of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, set for a Saturday in June 1860... It would be the first direct
confrontation between the forces of the new evolutionary view and those
of the entrenched view held by the Church. (Professor Huxley was to
defend the then recently promoted Darwinian theory).
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"I beg to ask you, Professor Huxley,
(questioned the Bishop) is it on your grandfather's or your
grandmother's side that you are descended from a monkey?" There was
an explosion of applause, under which Huxley turned to the man next to
him and whispered; "The Lord hath delivered him into mine hands." The professor
answered: "I assert that a man has no reason to be ashamed of having an
ape for a grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel
shame in recalling, it would rather be a man endowed with great
ability and a splendid position who used those gifts to obscure the
truth."
- Source Understanding The Bible -
through Koranic messages - by Akbarally Meherally, 1989. ISBN
0-9693571-1-7. pp. 109-110. Dialogues copied from Blueprints Solving The
Mystery Of Evolution. Edey and Johansons, Little, Brown and Comapny,1989
pp. 86-89.
- EVOLUTION BY DARWIN [ED] versus INTELLIGENT DESIGN
[ID]
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Enumerated below,
in one line statements, are the major Scientific discoveries that have
seriously challenged the Charles Darwin's 1859 theory; The Origin Of
Species. Furthermore, these
discoveries have demonstrated that the Creation of Species was not a one time deal.
The process has been repeated several times. This
ongoing process demands repetitive planning, selective
actions and recreations to perpetuate lives, from one era to another.
- Giving explanations
for the scientific terminologies enlisted below, in our everyday language would fill volumes. Many
of these terms may not be listed in one volume dictionaries. It is
suggested to search on the internet for the detailed meanings of these
terms by clicking:
- PHYLETIC GRADUALISM had been the
backbone of the much publicized [ED].
- PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIA
uncovered by the PALEONTOLOGISTS from the existing tangible fossil records
that can be physically examined, upholds
[ID].
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- MICROEVOLUTIONS of [ED]
fails to rebut the apparent reality of the
MACROEVOLUTION of [ID] that is evident
from the tangible preserved records.
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- ADAPTIVE MUTATION of [ED]
is presumptuous theory for the change of strains.
- STOCHASTIC
MUTATION of [ID] is a researched study
that proves that the ultimate source of modification from ancestor to
descendant is stochastic mutation, in the germ line.
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- NATURAL BIOSYSTEM of [ED]
is being disproved practically every day by the use of
- GENE-CHROMOSOME GENOME of
[ID] with the test tube conceptions and cloning.
- PRIMORDIAL BIOPROGRAM of
[ED] is pushed back by the recent discovery of
- LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor)
by the Molecular Evolutionist.
- A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO QUR'AN:
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- Historians recording the events
relating to the advent of Islam in Arabia are in agreement that the
dictated Verses of the Qur'an (Koran) were written by the scribes, during
the life of the Prophet of Islam (d. 632 A.D.). The written text was
collected, codified and circulated to the neighboring States in 654
A.D. These were the times when the human civilization was greatly
influenced by the prevalent Western and/or Eastern Astrology.
Until Sir Frances Drake (d. 1596)
circumnavigated the globe, many believed the earth to be flat. Before
Nicolaus Copernicus (d. 1543) published his book 'On the Revolutions of
the Celestial Spheres', many astronomers believed in the earlier
theory advocated by Claudius Ptolemaeus that our Earth occupied the center
of this Universe. The Italian astronomer Giordano Bruno defied the
prevalent theory and declared that the universe was infinite. Bruno was
burned at the stake by the order of Pope Clement VIII in 1600.
In 1609, Galileo invented the Kijkglas (telescope) and proved that Church
was mistaken and Bruno was not.
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- INTELLIGENT DESIGN BY
WILL...
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- Repeated Creations by Will
- The One that Designed
the Cosmos also Designed the Species...
- The Day that we roll
up the heavens like a scroll rolled up for books (completed) even as We
produced the first Creation so shall We produce a new one: a promise We
have undertaken: truly shall We fulfill it.
Qur'an 21: 104.
- All the translations of Verses are
by translator Abdullah Yusuf Ali.
- It is He Who
created the Night and the Day and the sun and the moon: all (the
celestial bodies) swim along each in its rounded course.
Qur'an 21: 33.
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- Were We then
weary with the first Creation that they should be in confused doubt
about a new Creation? Qur'an 50: 15.
- Punctuated Equilibria by Will
- Sudden Extinctions of
the existing Species and Reappearances of Species...
- If it were His will
He could destroy you O mankind and create another race: for He hath
power this to do.
Qur'an 4: 133.
It
is We Who created them and We have made their joints strong; but
when We will We can substitute the like of them by a complete
change. Qur'an 76:
28.
- He is Allah the
Creator the Evolver the Bestower of Forms. Qur'an 59: 24.
Spoken Word of God - Logos;
"BE"...
- To Him is
due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth; when He
decreeth a matter He saith to it: "Be"; and it is.
Qur'an 2: 117.
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- Note: The prologue of
GENESIS from the Old Testaments which endorses the above Verse of
the Qur'an, was reaffirmed by the Author of the LAST GOSPEL of New
Testaments. Here the author, in its opening passage has acknowledged
that it was Logos - the Spoken Word of God, the Creating Force
behind all that had been Created by God. The prologue of the Fourth
Gospel literarily and in reality, translates:
- In the beginning
was the Spoken Word (Command),
- and the Command
was with the God*,
- and the
Command was Divine**.
- * The
use of Greek article "ho" meaning; "the", before the
Greek noun "theos" meaning God,
denotes that "the God" and it is the Subject of that sentence
in Greek language.
- ** And, "theos" without the
article "ho" is hence the Predicate of that sentence in
Greek. And, this second "theos" denotes the
nature of the God's Command, which was Divine.
- Those who attribute the prologue of
Fourth Gospel to Jesus are telling that Logos=Jesus, was "with" God
in the Beginning, as well as Jesus was "God". The opening word of
the next verse which is generally translated as "He" in reality is
"This", meaning; God's Command.
- Details of Human Genetics
within the Qur'an
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- THE PERPETUATING OF
"MOTHERLY-LOVE" INSTINCT
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- The
scientists of our era have proved, with the sophisticated
gadgetries that LIFE
even exists in the "nanobes" - structures smaller than tiny Bacteria.
That makes us wonder who placed within these nanobes, dozens of different
proteins necessary for a working flagellum. The living molecular machines
to synthesize proteins and then send to proper destinations. We know it for a fact that
"motherly-love" instinct, has been found within the most primitive races
of men and animals, living upon the remotest corners of this earth. The man of science, religion and non-belief know that
it has played the essential part in the perpetuation of lives. Without
these instincts and characters the perpetuating of life may not have been
possible. The Biologists have yet to discover that the roots of these
hereditary instincts and characters are also associated with the process
of "DNA Replication" that makes exact copy of DNA. Unless that
is discovered or established, one can confidently assert that
these perpetuating features
of life bearing Species are best explained as the work of a Designer. Or,
by the Will and Wisdom of the Master-Designer and are NOT duplicated from
Genomes.
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- "For verily it is thy
Lord Who is the Master-Creator knowing all things".
Qur'an 15: 86.
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- Akbarally Meherally
- October 2005
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