The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an: The Book of God
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million years old. Now this period is far too short to
have accommodated the process of evolution
envisaged by Darwin. It has been shown
scientifically that for just one compound of protein
molecule to have evolved, it would have taken
more than just millions and millions of years. There
are over a million different forms of animal life on
earth and at least two hundred thousand fully
developed vegetable species. How could they all
have evolved in just two thousand million years?
Not even an animal low down in the evolutionary
scale could have developed in that time, let alone
man, an advanced life form which could have
developed only after passing through countless
evolutionary stages.
A mathematician, by the name of Professor Patau,
has made certain calculations concerning the
biological changes postulated by the theory of
evolution. According to him, even a minor change
in any species would take one million generations
to be completed. From this, one can have an idea of
how long a period would elapse before a dog, for
example, turned into a horse. The multiple changes
involved in such a complicated evolutionary
