2012م - 1444هـ
Book DARWIN'S DILEMMA: THE SOUL author : Harun Yahya







The Brain Is Not the Source of Personal Identity

The Flawlessly Equipped Human Brain

Manzara Kelebek Gol

The perceptual world whose details we have been examining is an artificial one, formed by way of electrical signals. But do our brains interpret these signals and convert them into a friend we recognize, a beautiful flower, a boundless landscape, children playing in the street or a loveable kitten?



Technically, it’s true that the signals are analyzed in the brain. Materialists go on to claim that we consist simply of our brains’ neurons and that the world we inhabit is the result of intercommunication between those nerve cells. They maintain that an entity who thinks, laughs, rejoices, recognizes other people and can analyze is, in the words of the evolutionist physicist and discoverer of DNA Francis Crick, “a pack of neurons.” 83 For a materialist, it is unimportant how human beings think and how they draw significance from their perceptions. It is unimportant because materialists have no explanation for these things. In their view, everything must be investigated in a material sense. The fact is, however, that this is a great falsehood uttered in order to turn people away from faith in Allah.



To clarify this in more detail, it will help to familiarize ourselves with the general outlines of the human brain, one of the most complex structures in the world.





Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Materialism Has Collapsed and

Disappeared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

The External World behind Quantum

Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

The Brain Is Not the Source of

Personal Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186

The Perception of Time and

the Fact of Destiny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210

Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246

Appendix: The Deception of Evolution . . . . . . .250