Theory Of Evolution: Criticism Of Ghamidi Sahab's Viewpoint
Ahsan sahab @codename.AJK I have tried to concisely pinpoint the key issues regarding Neo Darwinism (evolution through random mutation and natural selection) in my write up above along with references (underlined words are external links). At a personal level I have been working on certain related topics which I will share once I have something worthy of sharing. Dr. Junaid Hassan is also working on these topics very diligently and I am hopeful that his works should be published soon as well Insha’Allah. For now, you may want to read Darwin’s Blackbox by Michael Behe. His main idea is discussed in the video link that I also shared above. Additionally, one of the biggest challenges in the academia regarding evolution is known as Abiogenesis which deals with the origins of first life on earth from non-living matter. While there are several hypothetical ideas for each phase of this process, serious challenges face many such ideas. Overall, the life from non-life is still a big question mark for the scientists. Dr. James Tour, a Christian organic chemist and nanotechnologist at the Rice University has also discredited certain research / experiments in this area based upon his areas of expertise. You can lookup his informative videos on Youtube. Next, even if we are successfully able to show how life started to exist through chemical reactions in the prebiotic soup (a hypothetical set of conditions present on the earth at the beginning of life), we still don’t know how RNA would have turned into DNA and proteins that are necessary for life. The most commonly accepted idea in this regard is called the RNA world , which again is just a hypothesis at this time. Moreover, a cell contains functionally specified information which at present we can’t trace back to any blind biochemical processes. In fact, at present we have not even been able to completely map out the enormous complexity of just a single cell. The more we learn the more complexity we find. Also there are many unknowns and hypothetical ideas regarding how a single cell would have eventually transformed into multicellular life. Once we are able to understand that, we still don’t know how life would have become conscious. Again there are many hypothetical ideas and on-going debates regarding consciousness but nothing can be claimed with any level of certainty. As you can see, there are many levels of complexity in science related to life and each level has many assumptions or hypotheses at this time . While pop-science tends to make us think that pretty much everything is proven, once we start to dig deeper we learn that science is in fact far from making any valid assertions in many areas of research related to life.
JazakAllah Mr. Umer Qureshi!