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"How did life begin?"
This question and the question of the previous episode;
"How did information emerge?"
are one of the most difficult questions in contemporary experimental science at all.
Stuart Kuffman, an American theoretical biologist who studies the origin of life on Earth, says,
"Whosoever tells you that he knows - scientifically - how life began on Earth 
is either fool or fraudulent.
As there is no person on Earth that knows how life emerged on Earth scientifically."
On Scientific American website, there's an article entitled:
Psst! Don't tell the creationists, but scientists don't have a clue how life began.
The writer recounts all hypotheses of atheists in this topic, how life began on Earth, and shows its absurdity.
The issue of how life began on Earth cannot be explained according to materialism.
An atheist may object and says, "Don't you use the fallacy of (God of the gaps) then?
Whenever you don't know the explanation of something, you said that God created it."
That's how atheists object.
The answer is as follows,
We deduce and infer by what we know, not by what we don't.
As we infer by complex information systems that exist within each living being.
You can check the previous episode to know the atheistic trouble
against the information system by which life began with.
We deduce and infer by what we know, not by what we don't.
We infer by the quadro encryption system by which all information needed for the living being was registered.
There are 4 billion pieces of information are recorded - using a cryptographic system - in each cell of you.
The mental axiom says that as long as these pieces of information exist and encrypted,
there must be an originator for them - a creator who is All-Knowing and All-Powerful.
What if this encrypted information is transformed to flesh, blood, organs, functions, hormones and enzymes
that are extremely fine-tuned, perfect and functional.
So, this is considered as an objection or deduction by what we already know.
The mental axioms pushes that deduction towards believing in the Creator the All-Knowing, All-Powerful.
Whoever denies the result of that mental axiom is the one who is responsible for providing evidence, not us.
Whoever denies the result of that mental axiom surely will get into trouble
and he will only pull himself through it by using myths or denying mental axioms.
We - with all universities and sciences - became sure
that chemical compounds - no matter how complex they are - won't create life.
So, how could we attribute life to the primitive environment of Earth
while we couldn't create life despite having all these scientific and mental abilities?!
What we never observe, ever, is non-living chemicals for making cells.
So, in essence, we have a field of research where the important action is already 
How couldn't these universities, mega labs and impressive minds know
how to create the simplest form of life?!
Then, atheists insist that life emerged accidentally in the primitive environment of Earth.
Who is answering with (cognitive gaps): atheists or us?!
Although that atheists know neither how life began, how information emerge,
how the systems, organs and hormones of the living beings
nor how the universe emerge,
they attribute all what they do not know to nature which is more ignorant than them.
They are literally handing their minds to countless cognitive gaps.
Whenever they they are ignorant of something, they attribute it to the random nature!
Atheists live in a world of gaps:
past gaps to which they attribute the occurrence of these miracles,
and future gaps, as they believe that we may know in the future how these miracles had occurred.
This is how atheists live!
On the other side, who believe in the Creator infer and deduce by what they know.
They expostulate by information systems they have observed.
He expostulates by results that mind has observed.
Believers recognize the evidence
while atheists recognize illusion, false hope and far guesses.
As atheists drive away their problems to where we will never be.
Allah, the Almighty, says in The Noble Qur'an:
[Chapter 34 Sūrah Sabaʾ, Verse 53]
"Seeing that they did reject Faith entirely before,
and that they continually cast slanders on the unseen from a position far off?"
They make up any assumptions that oppose to what they already have.
While believers recognize proofs and evidence they have.
So, whoever denies design and information systems around us that refer to creation and perfection
is the one required to provide evidence, not us.
And here's a question,
do atheists have the right to use the plea of future gaps
or believing that future might tell us how those information systems and life began?
The answer is: No!
Atheists don't have the right for that at all.
Because guessing at the unseen - using future gaps - is only available for "contingent existence" issues.
"Contingent existence" is something that could mentally happen.
The origin of life subjectively in the primitive environment of Earth isn't contingent existence
rather it's mentally impossible.
Because if it was contingent existence, people would create it anywhere with the least effort.
As long as all mankind - with their sciences, universities, mega labs and minds - cannot even create
the simplest form of life,
it is never subject to contingent existence.
Whoever says that, "I'll disbelief in the hope that future might find proofing for my disbelief."
is the most astray person.
Do you know that giant scientific institutions - not religious ones - raised big cash prizes
for those who can answer this question:
"How did life begin?"
The last prize was worth 5 million USD.
Arizona university raised it for those who can answer this question:
how are information encrypted inside the genetic stripe?
Is this considered as contingent existence in the primitive environment of Earth?
Such a big sum of money for designing a little part of the genetic stripe.
Even if that part is millions of times smaller than the genetic stripe bacteria.
What we're actually doing is forming the simplest form of life.
And the result will be millions of times smaller and lighter than a small bacteria.
This is their ultimate hope.
To make something that's millions of times smaller than a small bacteria
Allah, the Almighty, says in The Noble Qur'an:
[Chapter 22 Sūrah al-Ḥajj, Verse 73]
"O men! Here is a parable set forth! listen to it!
Those on whom, besides Allah, ye call, cannot create even a fly, if they all met together for the purpose!
and if the fly should snatch away anything from them, they would have no power to release it from the fly.
Feeble are those who petition and those whom they petition!"
Also, Allah the Almighty said in the Sahih Divine Hadith,
"Who is more an oppressor than him who goes to create like My creation?
Let him make an ant or a grain of corn or a grain of barley."
Can you create the genetic stripe in a grain of corn?!
You have mind, complex chemistry, mega labs and design 
and yet, you created nothing!
You didn't create a tiny ant!
You didn't even create something that's millions of times smaller than a small bacteria
Is it contingent existence for dry barren random land to create bacteria and human being?
What is wrong with you? How do you make judgement?
What surprised me personally,
is that scientists gathered again a few months ago - specifically at the end of May -
at the Royal Society in London.
What for?
To double the prize to the tune of 10 million USD. 
Those 10.000.000 $ aren't a challenge to create life from nothing,
but it's a reward for creating a genetic stripe that encrypt information.
You will be required to do this to get the prize. No more!
Just make a genetic stripe that encrypt information.
Well, good morning! It's an honor to be here at the Royal Society.
So, we're here doubling the prize and its first significant activity I've had here in Europe.
"Let him make an ant or a grain of corn or a grain of barley."
Today, scientists themselves are the one who challenge mankind this challenge. 
We have millions of compact cells that emerged all of a sudden with the utmost fine-tuning
within the simplest living beings.
With knowledge and science we have, Which is much closer to reason:
Atheistic perception or Divine creation?
Let your mind work even if at the expense of your fancy ad inclination.
By the way, I didn't tell you that Arab atheists still believe that science could create life.
And they refer us to the experiment of Craig Venter that he conducted years ago.
Craig Venter is a famous American millionaire.
This is Venter's scientific paper.
What Venter actually did
was that he brought a living mycoplasma cell with its cell membrane, enzymes, organelles 
and full set of genes - inside the nucleus.
Then he inserted some processed bases inside the nucleus,
that cell produced many of them.
So, what Venter actually did was a project inside a living cell.
A living cell, membrane, enzymes and full set of genes.
Nobel-winning biologist Paul Nurse said,
"Venter's work is a major advance. But it's not a creation of synthetic life."
Unfortunately, Arab atheists still believe that Craig Venter created synthetic life from scratch.
Jim Collins, a bio-engineer at Boston university, says,
"My worry is that some people are going to draw conclusion that they have created a new life form.
It doesn't represent the creation of life."
Unfortunately, Arab atheists still believe that Craig Venter created synthetic life from scratch.
The stranger thing is that Venter said, "We didn't create life from scratch."
Only some Arab atheists believe that science created synthetic life from scratch.
Hence, life isn't contingent existence - mentally possible.
The giant information pack that appeared all of a sudden with the ultimate fine-tuning
in the genetic stripe isn't contingent existence either.
Your existence isn't isn't contingent existence either.
For today's assignments in this course
(Fortification of Muslim Mind),
is to get a notebook or a MS Word file
where you write down information and important notes that you hear or read from the get-go.
You should save them in your own way
either information you hear in this course
or information you read in books I recommend.
Knowledge is a hunt and writing is its bind.
Writing saves this information so that you can go back to it whenever you liked.
Knowledge is a hunt and writing is its bind
so tie your knowledge with secure methods.
Also, there's a non-Sahih Hadith narrated from Prophet Muhammad PBUH that says,
"Record your knowledge in books."
Because, during a dialogue with an atheist, you may need information you've already read.
So, writing down saves information for you.
Always invest what you've learned in sharing it.
Post what you've learned over social-networking sites.
This is knowledge Zakat.
And it makes you remember what you've learned all the time.
May Allah reward you well.
Thanks for listening.
There is no assignment for this episode.
Only remember to write down information as much as possible you've learned through the previous episodes.
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