Omar Phoenix March 20, 2000

Tags: evolution , science

href="/tag/science">science, although sparked of by the Arabs originally is a Western phenomenon in the 20th century. Hang on a minute, what's this I hear about the Greeks contributing to science. Of course the Greeks played a large role in western science, what with the Pythagorean triangle and Archemedes screw but Sorry Stavros your science was speculative. 'A salty object is spiky and a sweet object is round in nature,' isn't that what 'one of the greatest Greek scientists' once said but where was the working out and the hard core evidence.

But getting back to the point, science in the 20th century is almost exclusively a Western phenomenon (don't forget Japan everyone), and the west is Christian. Now we all know that a lot of religions suffer at the hands of people who use religion to control others and one of the ways they do that is by keeping worldly education exclusive to the privileged. I am not making alliances with Christianity however. In England for example, the Church was the political and economical power base and to maintain that power, it had to be ensured that this power was not distributed to the poorer community. But what is power but a manifestation of knowledge-science The Church detested anybody trying to expand their horizons and many famous persecutions of great western scientists are recorded, because the church though Mr Hubble was being blasphemous. The average English wannabe scientist grew up thinking that the world was mysterious and only God knew its secrets and that organic molecules had a life force within them. However as that scientist grew and matured and realised that 'hang on a minute, the Church said this was not possible and I've just discovered that it is' their natural attitude was to reject their faith.

And so began a lineage of atheist scientists who believed that everything in this universe was a mere coincidence - how would I go about telling them about Allah's intervention in life 'listen man you need to grow up.'

Well first of all, common sense. How would it sound if I was to say this computer keyboard cover was built when hydrocarbon fossil fuels from 65 meters underground spontaneously seeped through the cracks in a rock? The sun was shining and this sludge underwent spontaneous fractional distillation. The hydrocarbon with the right chain length somehow managed to fly off to the appropriate factory in Taiwan where by pure coincidence it was cleaned and moulded into the right shape. Of course the hydrocarbon just happened to seep into a mould which just happened to have the right shape. Out of nowhere, metallic machinery (need I say it was made by pure chance) bearing just the appropriate fluid of just the right colour, right viscosity, and the right chemicals just happened to spray upon the mould. Man, the thickness of this spray was 0.01 millimetres exact, now what are the chances of that, and whoops I shouldn't be mentioning men. How is it possible that something thinking can carry forward this process? No it was all a mere chance.

The universe is a bit weird. You see it's got all these weird anomalous properties, which it shouldn't have but because it has these uncanny strange features, life exists. Let's take a look at just a few examples:

The universe is apparently symmetrical and in fact should be symmetrical, up down, black white, entropy order and matter antimatter. However, the amount of

matter and antimatter is in the ratio of 7:3. If this ratio was equal, the two entities would annihilate each other and the universe would cease to exist but because of unknown reasons the ratio is not equal, strange, I wonder why is that?

Water is a tiny molecule. It's a dwarf. What the hell is it doing in the heavyweight department. How is it that far bigger molecules get beaten the hell out of when it comes to the title 'contribution to life.' Water just happens to have the right hydrogen bonding strength for it to exist as a solid, liquid and gas on planet Earth. Earth just happens to be at the right distance from the sun to have a temperature range where water can exist in all three states. These states are required if life as we know was to exist. Water also happens to have just the right polarity to dissolve most polar substances, which makes it an excellent solvent for life processes. Water just happens to be so polar that it dictates the double helix shape of DNA. If DNA did not retain its shape, then life as we know would not exist. Water just happens to have a high latent energy-that is it takes a long time to heat up and a long time for it to cool off. If the temperature of water fluctuated rapidly, then life would not exist due to the destruction of enzymes. Yet after all this water is small enough to be highly motile on the molecular level, an essential property for life once more. I could go on and on about the anomalous properties of water which should not really be applied to it, judging it by it's size and so forth. Man, this fluid is better than Lucozade and dudh lassi put together. I can understand why Allah sits, on his giant chair that floats above a sea of water.

The diameter of a carbon atom is just the right size for it to form chains of itself. If this chain (carbon backbone) property did not exist, life as we know would not exist. Any larger, the bonds between the 'links' would be too weak, any smaller, they would be too strong for a lot of biological reactions to occur. Silicone, Carbon's sister is slightly bigger and so cannot form chains and so silicone based life does not exist, although some people put that stuff inside their chest and judging by the size, you would be forgiven for thinking that that silicone had a life of its own.

Hydrogen bonded to a carbon chain (hydrocarbons) just happens to have almost the same elctronegativity as that of carbon so that hydrocarbons them selves are inert molecules. After all we wouldn't want just any old reaction taking place.

The universe expanded at just the perfect rate for gravity and electromagnetism and strong and weak forces to develop. Since these forces had developed 'properly' quarks and leptons and muons and so on condensed into nucleons which then coupled with electrons to form atoms and so forth. Any bit slower or faster, and either we wouldn't have had light or atoms (our building blocks) would not have formed in the first place

This list carries on and on and on and… You see with education, Allah no longer becomes a product of one's love for their faith. He becomes logic, a must!

If one were to use the principles which dictate the modern science, you would realise that science would actually promote belief in Allah, and not the other way around. I tend to think of it like this: Science is there to make our life easier. Take the Einstein's equation of relativity for example, a product of billions of neurones firing electricity within Einstein's dome. Now take a look at the product, three letters one number and that is all. So when a scientist says that life on Earth is a pure coincidence what he's actually saying is that there are 43 trillion gazillion, planets out there and to produce carbon based life, for all the things to come into harmony in the right order at the right time, it would take 43 trillion and so on worlds. I however say that there is only one reason-Allah.

And finally for all you atheists, ask a child who was born in the night, do you believe in the sun. He would say no. You would say, 'why,' and he would reply, look around you, do you see the sun because I don't see it anywhere.' That child is ignorant but after a few hours that sun will rise and burn his beliefs into a cinder, just as one day Allah will show himself.