The following are
excerpts from an address delivered by
Yemenite cleric Abd Al-Majid Al-Zindani,
which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on December 6, 2009.
Abd Al-Majid Al-Zindani:
Against the backdrop of this campaign, Darwin's evolutionists began
to rely on illusions, which they present as evidence. They said: "Look!
Your body has vestigial organs that you inherited from your ancestors,
the apes." God help us! Our ancestors were not apes. Their ancestors
may have been apes, but ours were human beings.
[...]
[The Darwinists] say:
"Look at this creature. We found it in a lower stratum, and we
found this more developed [creature] in a higher stratum." Okay,
let's say people come after us, and find archeological remains of a
handcart. Then they find bicycle in the stratum above it. Then, in the
stratum above that, they find a motorbike, and in the stratum above
that, they find a car. "Aha! We have discovered how the car developed
and where it came from. The car used to be a handcart. Then there were
natural developments and bla bla... and it turned into a bicycle, and
there were other conditions, and it turned into a motorbike and from
a motorbike, it turned into a car. Look how it developed." Can
anybody accept such logic? If there was really such a sequence, it proves
that this creature came after that one, but not that it developed from
it. There is a difference between the two.
[...]
We must not rule out
the possibility that Darwin had hidden psychological feelings. Darwin
was reviled just like the Jews, who are told: "You are the brothers
of apes and pigs." Allah transformed the Israelites who rebelled
against him into apes and pigs, and it has become a curse used against
them. Perhaps Darwin was upset and wanted to say to people: "You
are all apes and pigs. It's not just us." Therefore, we can see
that this theory is not based on sound foundations, and does not have
sufficient proof. So today, it is considered to be a theory which used
to be prevalent, but which lost many of its supporters, who renounced
it, and which has become like a past legend.
[...]
What remains for us to
say is that the principle in which they believe is the principle of
coincidence. The whole business happened by coincidence. If you said
that a book could be created by coincidence, nobody on the face of the
earth would accept it. Moreover, an Islamic scholar said: "If we
took a million apes with a million typewriters, and these million apes
were to type for a million years – would a poem by [Egyptian poet]
Ahmed Shawqi accidentally be created?" What is this? This is something
that science, reason, and truth cannot accept.
