What is the meaning of evolution?

What is the meaning of evolution? This question we believe that commitment to it is an indispensable necessity for all parties to the dialogue, because if we are going to disagree on something, we must know well what it means, and this knowledge must be well documented and edited, and we must put aside our impressions and preconceived convictions. So far we have released more than 14 books in opposition to evolution, and this publication is not to review them or to summarize them or even to explain our reasons in opposition to evolution. But the goal here is only to edit the concepts. There are undisputed meanings of evolution. These include: (the change of organisms over time), (the possibility of organisms adapting to changing environmental conditions), and (the possibility of gene sequence change in a living community). If this is only what evolution means, then people will leave it unharmed. But the theory does not stop there at all, the evolutionary theory claims two things: 1) The decline of bacteria – which develop resistance against antibiotics – and humans – who have an immune system that is unable to repel germs – and other organisms; from a single common ancestor found in the distant past. 2) The processes that produced bacteria and all other living things are carried out by random mutations (genetic copying errors) of which natural selection stabilizes the fittest in the offspring of the organism, and then with the repetition of the same process turns a species to a new species, and the kingdoms, people, varieties and all biological classifications are created in the same way. The implications of this theory in our reality on philosophy, religion, politics, society and ethics are undeniable, one of the most famous atheist neuroscientists Raymond Thales wrote a book in 2014 entitled "Aping Mankind" in which he warns of those constant attempts at human flexibility, and this is not new, Adam Sidgwick himself, Darwin's former professor of biology at Cambridge University, expressed his deep fear immediately after reading the book "The Origin of Species", and sent a letter to him in 18 years. If this link between matter and morality can be broken, and I thank God it is not, I think humanity will suffer harm that might befall it with savagery, and mankind will be plunged into the lowest degeneration it has ever been, according to its written history. Sedgwick didn’t have to wait long for his fears to materialize: Darwinists in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were already able to plunge “the human race into the lowest degeneration it has ever been documented in its written history.” The present is no brighter than the past, and Daniel Dennett has described Darwin's "dangerous religious perspective" as "a universal sourness", eating away at all traditional beliefs about religion and morality, not out of touch with reality. One of the most famous proponents of theistic evolution and former Vice President of Biologos (Carl Giperson) sums up in his book with Donald Yerkesa the reality of today's scientific arena: "There is not a single prominent individual among the leading people who can explain science in the popular way." Karl Geberson and the Biologos Foundation, of course, speculate that the fault with these leading figures is with the scientific community, not with evolution or Darwinism itself. Let us see the theory of evolution in its true form from its inception with Darwin, Darwin says: "There seems to be no more determination in the variation of living things, or in the action of natural selection, than in the direction in which the wind blows." He also says, "There is no evidence for the belief that the changes that are the basis ... for the formation of the most compact animals in the world, including man, were particularly directed and intended."[4] Darwin sees the term natural selection as "in some ways a bad term, for it seems to mean conscious choice; but this will be discarded after a little familiarity. No one objects to chemists when they speak of 'elective familiarity'; and of course acid has no choice in merging with the norm, more so than I have the conditions of life in determining whether a new form will be selected, preserved or not."[5] The theory changed a lot after Darwin, of course, but the basic pillars of random change, natural selection and a common ancestor have not changed, but in any case let us review the statements of the evolutionists after Darwin. Ernest Meyer, a famous evolutionary scientist and one of the founders of modern evolutionary synthesis (or modern Darwinism), says in his book What is Evolution?: "The first step in selection, the production of genetic variation, is almost entirely and exclusively a chance phenomenon, but the nature of changes in a particular locus is severely constrained."[6] “The truly outstanding achievement of the principle of natural selection,” he says, “is that it eliminates the necessity of invoking `final causes’ – that is, any teleological forces that lead to a certain ultimate end. In fact, nothing is predestined.” The most influential American paleontologist and one of the founders of the modern evolutionary structure, George Gaylord Simpson, says in his book The Meaning of Evolution: "Man is the result of a non-teleological natural process that did not take him into account." Dawkins says that natural selection is the blind watchmaker, no no, excuse me, Dawkins is an extreme atheist... Well, the Catholic Christian evolutionary biologist Kenneth Miller says in his book The Quest for the God of Darwin: "Evolution is a natural process, and natural processes are undirected." In a letter from 38 Nobel Prize-winning scientists to the Kansas State Board of Education (to urge the board not to accept the definition of "intelligent design" in biology curricula) we see their definition of evolution as: "Evolution is understood as the result of undirected and unplanned processes of random change and natural selection." In the famous Pew statistic, a statistic done on 2,500 AAAS scientists, and evolutionists always like to cite it to prove that there are 97% of scientists who support evolution, 87% of them believe that humans and other organisms evolved over time through natural processes, and only 8% of them believe that evolution was directed by a higher being. development in the current scientific community. Of course, these figures mean nothing to anyone who knows the nature of science. Throughout history, the scientific consensus has often been proven unreliable. In 1750, there was consensus that certain organisms (such as worms) arise through autogenesis, the view demolished by Francesco Reddy and Louis Pasteur. There are many such examples in the history of science. Thus, the current consensus of scientists on the theory of evolution or on other theories, does not prove to be fact, the most that can be proved by scientific consensus on something, is that this thing expresses the prevailing conviction accepted currently, but the scientific consensus is variable in nature, and the suspension of confidence on it (with the prior knowledge that it is variable throughout history) is a psychological process that any serious thinker rises above. But let's continue the process of learning about the theory of evolution, and let's look at the curricula and textbooks on evolution and biology ... is the picture different there? On the UC Berkeley Understanding Evolution website, which is one of the most popular free online courses for students and the general public to learn about evolution, we find the statement that “evolution is an undirected process.” In the popular textbook Biology, one of whose authors, Kenneth Miller, boasts that it is taught in one-third of high schools and more than 200 colleges in America, the famous phrase is: "Evolution works without a plan or a goal ... Evolution is random and undirected." Similarly, Douglas Fitoma, in his textbook on evolutionary biology, says bluntly that "we can find no evidence of any design, purpose, or end anywhere in the world of life." Similarly, in his book Biology, Burton Gutman says, "only by chance did the remarkable diversity of life forms emerge during the billions of years that organisms have evolved on the planet."18 In Life: Biology, the authors state that "evolutionary change occurs without goals ... evolution is not directed toward an ultimate goal." In Evolution: An Introduction, published by Oxford University Press, the authors stress that “nothing consciously chooses what is to be chosen. Nature is not a conscious actor who chooses what is to be chosen.”20 So we can sum it up in three points: 1- The development that is studied in universities and the current official and academic institutions see its correctness is a natural unguided process, the first step is mutations, which are errors that occur during the copying of genes randomly, and if those errors appear, which leads to a useful modification at the genetic level, the second step occurs, a natural selection that proves the result of genetic modification that occurred from a mistake in the copying, and then the third step occurs, which is the transmission of the useful result of the children of the organism by reproduction, and then with the repetition of those three steps that life. Constant attempts by the proponents of theistic evolution or evolutionary creation, both at the Biologus Foundation and beyond, always ignore the fact that the scientific community, which unanimously protests, sees no place for divine guidance in the theory, and also ignores the fact that they are as few as the opponents of evolution. 3 - Development has undeniable consequences, has consequences on the questions of mind, ethics, language, religion, politics and law, and therefore we are in front of a whole system, we can not accept its origin and then do not accept to discuss even in its branches, especially if those branches have the good fortune of acceptance and welcome and spread within the scientific and philosophical community. 1 Dr. Richard Wyckart, From Darwin to Hitler, Proofs 2019, p.14. (2) Karl W. Giberson, Donald A. Yerxa, Species of Origins: America's Search for a Creation Story, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (October 9, 2002), p122. (3) Francis Darwin, ed., The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Including an Autobiographical Chapter (London: John Murray, 1887), I:309. (4) Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, second edition (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1883), vol. II, pp. 428-429. (5) Ibid. (6) Ernst Mayr, “What is Evolution?”, Basic Books 2001, p325. (7) Ernst Mayr, “Darwin’s Influence on Modern Thought,” Scientific American (July 2000), p80. (8) George Gaylord Simpson, The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man, revised edition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967), p. 345. (9) Kenneth Miller, Finding Darwin’s God, p. 244. (10) Ibid, p. 272. (10) The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity: Nobel Laureates Initiative (September 9, 2005). (11) Pew Research Center, "Public Praises Science; Scientists Fault Public, Media", July 9, 2009, Section 5: Evolution, Climate Change and Other Issues, https://www.people-press.org/2009/07/09/section-5-evolution-climate-change-and-other-issues/, Last Accessed April 6, 2019. (12) Pew Research Center, "Public Praises Science; Scientists Fault Public, Media", July 9, 2009, Section 4: Scientists, Politics and Religion, https://www.people-press.org/2009/07/09/section-4-scientists-politics-and-religion/, Last Accessed April 6, 2019. 13 Dr. Jonathan Wells, Zombie Science: Icons of Evolution Revisited, Proofs 2019, p. (14) The path not taken, Understanding Evolution website, https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/3_0_0/constraint_18, Last Accessed April 6, 2019. (15) Kenneth R. Miller, Kitzmiller v Dover Area School District, Trial Transcript: Day 1 am Session (September 25, 2005), pp. 41, 44. (16) Kenneth R. Miller and Joseph S. Levine, Biology (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1991), p. 658; Kenneth R. Miller and Joseph S. Levine, Biology (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1993), p. 658; Kenneth R. Miller and Joseph S. Levine, Biology (Engelwood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995), p. 658; Kenneth R. Miller and Joseph S. Levine, Biology (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1998), p. 658; Kenneth R. Miller and Joseph S. Levine, Biology (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2000), p. 658. (17) Douglas J. Futuyma, Evolutionary Biology (Sunderland: Sinauer Associates Inc. 1998), p. 8. (18) Burton S. Guttman, Biology (Boston: McGraw Hill, 1999), p. 37. (19) William K. Purves, David Sadava, Gordon H. Orians, & H. Craig Keller, Life: The Science of Biology (6th ed., Sinauer; W.H. Freeman and Co., 2001), pg. 3. (20) Stephen C. Stearns & Rolf F. Hoeckstra, Evolution: An Introduction, (2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2005) pg. 30. - Management of the Brahin Center — Source: Brahin Center website - Published 2019-04-06 (archived at the Internet Archive) https://braheen.com/articles/evolution-design/ما-هو-معنى-التطور؟