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With your body made up of atoms, you are breathing atoms in the air,
eating atoms in food and drinking atoms of water. What you see is nothing
other than the collision of electrons of the atoms in your eye with photons.
And what about what you feel by touch? The sensations are simply formed
by atoms in your skin repelling atoms of objects.
Indeed, almost everyone knows today that his body, the universe,
the world, in short, everything consists of atoms. Yet, perhaps, most
people so far never thought about what kind of a system the entity we
call the atom has. Or, even if they did, they did not feel the need to
investigate it, because they always thought this concerns physicists alone.
Man, however, lives entwined within this perfect system throughout
his life. This is such a system that every one of the trillions of atoms
forming the armchair on which we sit has an order about which a book could
be written. It takes pages to tell the formation, the system and the power
of a single atom. As the technology advances and our knowledge of the
universe increases, these pages also increase.
How then did this order form? It cannot be that the atoms came into being by themselves in the wake of the Big Bang and then an appropriate environment was formed by chance, and these atoms combined randomly to form the elements that comprised the universe. It is certainly impossible to explain such a system by "chance". Everything you see around you, and even the air you cannot see, consist of atoms, and there is a very complex traffic between these atoms.
Who then can direct the traffic between the atoms? Can it
be you? If you think that your body consists of atoms alone, then which
one of your atoms directs which, and which atom directs what? Do the atoms
of your brain that are no different from other atoms control the others?
If we assume that the atoms of your brain are directors, then we have
to answer these questions:
* If all atoms forming the brain are directors, how and based
on what do they make their decisions?
* How do trillions of atoms forming the brain cooperate?
* Why does not a single atom out of trillions of them oppose
the decision that is taken?
* How do the atoms communicate with each other?
Considering the above questions, it is obviously an illogical
deduction to say that all of the trillions of atoms forming the brain
are directors.
So, can it be correct to think that only one of these trillions
of atoms is the director and the others are its followers? If we believe
a single atom to be the director, then the questions that come to the
mind are:
* Which atom is the director and who elected this atom?
* Where in the brain is this atom?
* What is the difference of this atom from the others?
* Why do the other atoms obey this atom unconditionally?
Before answering these questions, let us state one more thing:
the supposed director atom is also made up of other particles. Why and
under what pretext do these particles come together to form this director
atom? Who controls these particles? Since there is another will directing
these particles, how right would it be to defend that this atom is the
director?
At this point, the claim that one of the atoms forming our
brain may be the director atom is inevitably disproved. How do the countless
number of atoms in the universe continue their existence in full harmony,
while people, animals, plants, earth, air, water, objects, planets, space,
and everything else are made of atoms? Which one of these countless atoms
can be the director when it itself is made up of many sub-particles? To
make such a claim or to attribute everything to chance and to deny the
being of Allah, Who created all the worlds, is only "rejecting
those signs in iniquity and arrogance in spite of their own certainty
about them." (Surat an-Naml: 14)
Just think: a human being, who is made up of the arrangement
of atoms in various combinations, is born, is fed with atoms and grows
up with atoms. He then reads books made of atoms in a building made of
atoms. Later, he receives a diploma composed of atoms that says "nuclear
engineer" on it. Yet, he can still come and deliver speeches such
as "these atoms have come together as a result of sheer coincidence,
and the extraordinary system within them has formed by chance". If
this is so, where does he derive the consciousness, will and intelligence
to deliver this speech?
In almost every page of this book, we saw repeatedly that
it is impossible for the atom making up every animate or inanimate thing
in the universe, to be itself formed by chance. What we will say to those
who, despite all we have told, still think that this phenomenon has come
about by "chance" or taken its present form through the mechanism
of "trial and error" will be no different from what the prophet
Ibrahim, peace be upon him, said to the disbelievers:
What about the one who argued with Ibrahim about
his Lord, on the basis that Allah had given him sovereignty? Ibrahim said,
'My Lord is He who gives life and causes to die.' He said, 'I too give
life and cause to die.' Ibrahim said, 'Allah makes the sun come from the
East. Make it come from the West.' And the disbeliever was dumbfounded.
Allah does not guide wrongdoing people. (Surat al-Baqara: 258)
They said 'Glory be to You! We have no knowledge
except what You have taught us. You are the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.'(Surat
al-Baqara: 32)
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