Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

Zoologic, which he published in 1809, Lamarck wrote that the
living could multiply from one origin. But the biologists of the
same century said that the examples given by Lamarck proved
animals’ adaptation to their environments, rather than their
developing from one another.
Secondly, Charles Darwin, the son of a British biologist, in his
book The Origin of Species, which he published in 1859, said:
“The living struggle to adapt themselves to their environments.
Those who are successful in this life struggle survive and those
who fail die. The incidental changes in a creature enable it to
survive by adapting itself to the environment.” Other scientists
objected to this in various ways. Even Darwin acknowledged the
fact that he had failed to understand the formation of such
complicated organs as the eye and the brain, and he had to say in
his letter which he wrote to a friend of his: “As I think of the
construction of the eye, I feel as if I will go crazy.”
Thirdly, Hugo de Vries, a botanist from Netherlands, observed
in plants that different plants came out from a pure species
incidentally and that their properties were transferred from one
progeny to the next, and he called this the theory of mutation. But
in point of fact, in mutation new organs do not develop.
Furthermore, it is not possible to explain away the formation of
complicated organs, such as the eye and the brain, which issue
from the various layers of embryo, simply by the changing of
events in the theory of mutation.
Lastly, paleontologists admit the fact that each living species
can change within its own species, and that a living species does
not change into another species. For example, today’s
echinoderms are the same as the ones of the first paleontologic
age. No echinoderm has ever been observed to change into a
vertebrate, nor has any fossil been found to indicate this.
On the contrary, Hadrat Ibrâhim Haqqî has written in his
book Ma’rifatnâma that in the construction of the living there is a
development from the simple to the most perfect man with
examples, and he has explained that this does not mean that the
species change from one to another.
Allâhu ta’âlâ declares: “Observe matter, the changes in
matter; For you did I create them. Utilize all of them.” And also:
“Observe how the young develop and the events of life, see that
all are based upon regular, scientific principles, and thereby
understand My existence and My greatness!”
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