By Babatunde Jose
“Man We did create from a quintessence (of clay); Then We placed him as (a drop of) sperm in a place of rest, firmly fixed; Then We made the sperm into a clot of congealed blood; then of that clot We made a (fetus) lump; then We made out of that lump bones and clothed the bones with flesh; then We developed out of it another creature. So blesses be Allah, the Best to create!!” [23:12-14]
There are many theories about the creation of man. There are those who claim that man is the product of genetic engineering by the Anunnaki.
According to Sitchin, Nibiru was the home of a technologically advanced human-like extraterrestrial race (called the Anunnaki in Sumerian myth) who were called the Nephilim in the Bible.
He claims they first arrived on Earth probably 450,000 years ago, looking for minerals, especially gold, which they found and mined in Africa.
The Anunnaki Ancient Alien presence in the Bible appears in Genesis 1:26 and Genesis 2:10-14 which refer to a conversation in which the Creator states that ‘Let us create man in our own image’.
Zecharia Sitchin believes that the Anunnaki genetically engineered modern-day humans by crossbreeding with homo erectus.
And, since modern science and medicine achieved the feat of in-vitro fertilization, Adam could be described as the first test-tube baby. . .
As farfetched as this is, it has gained traction in alternative science. Other writers such as Erich von Däniken author of best-selling Chariots of the Gods and God was an Astronaut also subscribe to the same notion.
Another school holds that man is the end-product of an evolutionary trend, man from ape theory.
This is the most popular view but also the most studied and criticized when the science behind it is scrutinized and thoroughly interrogated. Evolution is not one theory, but a complex series of theories. It is based upon many preconceived notions.
In believing in evolution, we are asked to accept that all the different forms of life on earth began from a primeval soup.
No one knows where this `soup` was, or what happened to it. No one can say what happened to suddenly bring forth life from the `soup’. Of particular importance is the fact of human origin.
One bewildered commentator said: “Human evolution must be the greatest story never told. It begins in an unknowable past and continues mysteriously for the next five or six million years. Is it a thriller, an epic, or a comedy of errors? There is no dust jacket, no title page, no dedication, no acknowledgements.
Almost all the text is missing, apart from the occasional phrase, sentence, or paragraph, seemingly torn at random from the great six-million-year narrative. If the story of humanity is a single volume, then only the last page survives.”
Why did humans become so different: bipedal, upright, hairless, with limited strength, feeble jaws, bad backs, embarrassingly large heads, and brains with a cerebral cortex four times the size of a chimps, developed intellect, build cities, and eventually go to space?
For decades, the conventional evolutionary lineage was a simple one until discoveries in Africa revealed a picture more of confusion than direction.
The fossils turn up in South Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia and even the Sahel. They have generic names such as Sahelanthropus, Ardipithecus, Orrorin, Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Kenyanthropus.
Limita¬tions in material of early man make the direct line of descent more confusing. The time and place when modern man first originated are controversial.
Many of the world’s fossils show, by the details of their soft fleshy portions, that they were buried before they could decay. This, together with the occurrence of polystrate fossils is unmistakable evidence that this sedimentary material was deposited rapidly not over hundreds of millions of years.
Many fossils of modern looking humans have been found deep in rock formations that are supposedly many millions of years older than evolutionary theory would predict.
Macroevolution is built on the claim that mutations can produce not only new species but also entirely new families of plants and animals.
This is a myth and unsupported by 100 years of research findings. Many characteristics of a plant or an animal are determined by the instructions contained in its genetic code.
While mutations can produce alterations in the descendants of plants and animals it cannot transform an original species into an entirely new one. Hence, mango cannot mutate into orange.
Another myth is that the fossil record documents macroevolutionary changes. But research has shown that all the major groups of animals appeared suddenly and remained virtually unchanged, with many species disappearing as suddenly as they arrived.
The lack of transitional links has proven the theory of evolution suspect. Where are the inferior branches of the evolutionary process in the different life forms? There is absolutely no evidence in the fossil record to their existence.
There is no scientific proof that a species can change the number of chromosomes within the DNA. The chromosome count within each species is fixed. This is the reason a male from one species cannot mate successfully with a female of another species.
Fossil record has not produced one piece of evidence that man has evolved from another species.
What happened to all the “missing links “? All of them have been proven to be fraudulent, lies perpetrated by deceptive men. Stories claiming that primitive, ape-like men have been found are overstated.
What we learned about Nebraska Man (1917) was incorrect. Its picture was created by an artist from a single tooth of an EXTINCT PIG. Imagination run riot!!!
In 1912, Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist in England, claimed he’d made one of the most important fossil discoveries ever.
Ultimately, however, his “Piltdown Man” proved to be a hoax. By cleverly pairing a human skull with an orangutan’s jaw – stained to match and give the appearance of age – a mysterious forger duped the scientific world.
Peking Man became one of the “missing links” in the 1920’s. A man by the name of Davidson Black found a single tooth near Peking, China.
After being given a grant of $80,000.00 from the Rockefeller Foundation, it was discovered that the tooth was found in a town garbage dump. The site contained thousands of animal bones and a few human bone fragments.
“Lucy” is one of the most celebrated of the Australopithecus finds and was unearthed by Donald C. Johanson at Hadar, Ethiopia in 1975. This too was a hoax.
In 1891, Java Man was found by a man named Eugene Dubois. On the island of Java, he found a skull cap. A year later and fifty feet from where he found the skull cap, he found a femur or leg bone.
Sometime later, at another location, he found three teeth. British zoologist thought his finds were human, but German experts decided it was an ape.
About 15 years before his death, and after most evolutionists had become convinced that the bones found in Java were nothing more than from a modern human, Eugene Dubois announced that the bones belonged to a gibbon.
Belief in evolution requires incredible faith in lies and deception!
At the International Congress of Zoology (1958), Dr. A. J. E. Cave reported that his examination of the famous Neanderthal skeleton found in France, was that of an old man who suffered from arthritis.
Cro-Magnon Man: One of the earliest and best-established fossils has been found to be equal in physique and brain capacity as a modern man . . . so what is the difference?
New Guinea Man discovered in 1970 . . . this species once thought to be a “missing link”, has been found in the region just north of Australia . . . ALIVE! Yeeepa !!!
Earthly life forms reproduce after their own kind.
Different animals do not inter-breed. This suggests that each of these life forms were distinctly created. Cats and dogs do not interbreed to produce `cat- dogs`.
It must however be admitted that in recent years modern science has made substantial advances in genetic engineering.
Scientists have been able to “read” the genetic code of living organisms, up to and including that of Man.
The advances in understanding and manipulating this fundamental chemistry of life were recognized in 1980 with the award of the Nobel prize in chemistry to Walter Gilbert of Harvard and Frederick Sanger of Cambridge University for the development of rapid methods for reading large segments of DNA, and to Paul Berg of Stanford University for pioneering work in “gene splicing.”
These capabilities have made possible gene therapy, the removal from or correction within human cells of genes causing inherited sicknesses and defects. But there is still a long way to go.
All these are possibilities that are consistent with the fact of man’s increased understanding of an aspect of creation but still do not explain the source of life or the origin of ‘man’.
All things considered therefore, the Judge has summoned the Jury back into the courtroom and they have handed in their verdict: Man is not a product of evolution but is a creation of God as the good books have proclaimed.
Everything under the sun was created by God as it is, and nothing added or subtracted.
The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. says Psalm 24:1
“Adam was created out of clay.” (Quran 37:11). “…..he was given life after divine spirit was blown into it: ” (Quran 32:9). And after creating them, ” . . God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth'” (Genesis 1:28) And that is what we have been doing ever since. Allah be praised.
Barka Juma’at and a happy weekend
Babatunde Jose
