Orphan Rights

ScienceA Call to ReflectionAs you sat watchingtelevision, were someone totell you that the broadcastcame, not from any televisionstation, but as the resultof electromagnetic wavesforming at random in theair and that the televisionhad not been produced ina factory but had come intobeing spontaneously overthe years from the atomsand molecules in your home,what would you think?You would probably imaginethat person was joking.Certainly you would not takehis words seriously. Whenyou realized that they wereactually serious in makingthat claim, you wouldconclude they had lost theirreason. That is because inthat example, we are dealingwith a technological design:A television set is a devicespecially manufacturedwith the aim of receivingtelevised broadcasts. Inshort, both the television andthe broadcasts-and everyaspect of the relationshipbetween the two-have beenplanned down to the finestdetail. In this complex system,there is absolutely no roomfor chance.Yet evolutionists maintainsomething even moreirrational. The view of Darwinand his evolutionist followersmay be summarized asAn Islamic Periodical Magazine - Issue No 18 June 2010 57