Is your ancestor a monkey or Adam? When you ask the question like this, you're getting into a shallow heart, right? Choose one of the two, brother.
Make your stance clear. According to that , we will appear on television and argue idly for years to fill our pockets. Unfortunately, there are many people who say this.
Both on the science side and on the faith side. But what if there was no need for so much discussion? What if the roots of these two different approaches, which seem contradictory or presented to us as if they were, actually lead to the same point?
And what if the problem arises only because of man's limited perspective? If you, like me , are tired of cliché discussions that lead to no conclusion, let 's go on a journey together and look for an answer to humanity's biggest question in the last chapter of the creation series. How did human beings come into existence?
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When evolution is mentioned, everyone thinks of Charles Darwin and it is as if he started the bottomless subject called evolution . However, this is a very, very big mistake. In fact, Darwin is just a branch on this huge tree.
Yes, it is important, but it is a part of the tree, not the whole tree. To understand evolution, we must first look at its origins and development . Just like it represents development and change .
When we trace the first thoughts and studies on evolution, the first stop we come across is Ancient India. In the thousands of years old Sanskrit texts, the Upanishads, the philosophy that everything in creation repeats in a change and transformation is explained. Of course, it is a philosophy that approaches the issue from an extremely broad perspective , but it constitutes one of the first examples of the idea of evolution.
As far as we know, more systematic evolution studies began in Ancient Greece. B. C.
In 610, Anaximander was one of the first philosophers to suggest that life began from water and that living things changed over time . Almost 100 years later, Empedocles explained the diversity of living things in nature with an idea similar to natural selection and said that only living things that adapt to their environment survive in nature. It is the earliest example of Darwin's idea of natural selection.
A century later, Aristotle developed the technique of classifying living things in an order for the first time, by proposing the idea of a natural ladder that orders living things from simple forms to complex forms . There is another very important person whose name is not even mentioned in the education books imposed on us by the West . The great scholar El Cahis, who lived in 776 AD .
In his seven- volume book Kitab al-Animals, that is, Animals, he wrote and put into literature how natural selection and environmental factors play a critical role in the process of change, that is, evolution, of animals, almost a thousand years before Darwin. But as I said , unfortunately, the names of scholars like him are not even mentioned in evolution discussions . During the Renaissance, Europe was freed from the pressure of the church and began to use old knowledge in new ways.
When it was discovered again through research, people such as George Leclerc and Erasmus Darwin began to re-present to the Western world the idea that living things descended from a common ancestor and changed as a result of environmental factors . Yes , almost 2500 years after ancient Greece and almost 1000 years after eastern civilizations, Europe regains access to ancient knowledge . So where does the famous Charles Darwin fit into this?
By the way, Erasmus Darwin, whose name I just mentioned, is also the grandfather of Charles Darwin. The importance of Charles Darwin lies in the fact that he systematically observed, took notes on, and showed us this change in the texts and theories spread throughout history that I have already mentioned in his book On the Origin of Species, published in 1959. In other words, he made the first scientific observation of evolution in modern times and took notes.
This observation basically showed that the beak shapes of the finch birds on the Galapagos island changed according to the conditions on different islands , and this was recorded in the literature as the first live example of natural selection and adaptation. Other than that, the exaggerated Darwin narrative is the imposition of the classical western media that I created the small mountains and you will believe it too. Remember, being western and being civilized are completely different things.
If you become westernized in order to be civilized, you will only be puppets in someone's imposition of false history . Your goal should be to become civilized by respecting your essence, always remembering where you come from, not to become westernized. Let's continue after my little public service announcement.
All these observations, experiments and research carried out by philosophers, early scientists and modern researchers over the thousands of years have led to the formation of the scientific law we call the law of evolution. If there are those of you who say, wait a minute, evolution is just a theory, what does the law have to do with it ? Unfortunately, those empty discussions on television have confused your minds.
The law of evolution and the theory of evolution are two different things. Since the beginning of the video, we have seen small examples of how the law of evolution develops. As a matter of fact, it is a law whose reality has been proven by fossils found in archaeological excavations in modern times and, more importantly, by experiments conducted in laboratory environments .
For example, let me give a few examples. In 1988, Richard Lansky began experiments on E. coli bacteria .
And in experiments that have continued since then, 70 thousand bacterial generations have been examined. And it was observed how these generations changed and evolved over time, according to the conditions imposed on them, and passed on these abilities to the next generation. Similarly, in experiments conducted on fruit flies, it was observed that fruit fly generations mutated and transferred their new abilities to the next generation through DNA change, depending on the conditions changed in the test environment.
Even the proliferation of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, which you often hear about in the news today, is a negative part of this process. And this problem is expected to turn into a huge danger for humanity in the near future. There are dozens of other experiments like these.
I don't want to bore you by telling you one by one . But in evolution, which is a law, this condition is required. The change experienced by a living thing affects its DNA and can be passed on to subsequent generations.
If there is this continuity, it means there is evolution. If you want to see this for yourself, hold your fingers like this. Look, there will be a tendon like this in your wrist.
The name of this tendon is Palmaris Longus. It was critical for monkeys to cling to trees . And humans also have it, even if it is weakened .
But not all of us. In some people, this tendon has already disappeared. This is one of the best proofs that we are already evolving.
So, if you are wondering what the theory of evolution is, now we come to it. The law of evolution proves to us that living things develop by changing from a common root . But evolution theories give us the answer to the question of how exactly this happened .
To give an example, there is a fish in front of us that has developed small wings to escape from predators. In this way, it can fly over water for short distances. This is the law of evolution.
Because here we have a fish that can fly, even if only for a short time . But how did those wings develop and why? The scientific method that seeks the answer to the question of evolution is the theory of evolution.
Please note this difference. The theory of evolution does not consist of a single mechanism. For example, the most generally accepted theory today is the theory of natural selection, of which we have seen examples for a long time.
But apart from this, there is also the theory of Mender genetics developed by Gregor Mendeli . In fact, today, the theories of both Mendel and Darwin have been combined and the theory of synthetic evolution has been developed. There is a theory called genetic drift and it explains that evolutionary changes occur not only by natural selection but also sometimes by completely random mutations.
For example, in a mouse population on an island, only short- tailed individuals survive by chance and the long-tailed genes disappear completely. Apart from these, for example, Motto-Kimura's neutral theory argues that evolution occurs only through random changes in gene frequencies. Stephen Gould's punctuated equilibrium theory argues that evolution does not occur slowly over generations, but sometimes extremely rapidly.
In fact, there are various theories of evolution. Because we still do not know exactly how evolution occurs for all living things. While this process is rapid in some creatures , it is very slow or very limited in others, such as the crocodile shark.
That's why we use all of these theories, more or less, to explain the law of evolution and develop new theories. Now you're not watching this video because you're curious about how fish evolve . I know this.
After this scientific background, we are now ready to dive deeper into our main topic. And that big question arises. How did the species called human beings come into being?
Modern humans, homo sapiens, are a species that emerged 400 thousand years ago, according to current estimates , and is equipped with desires that are extremely different from its last predecessor. I'm talking about us humans, who live in contradiction with nature and are full of contradictions . The word incompatible with nature does not necessarily have to be a word that is perceived physically.
Normally, almost all beautifully evolved creatures on Earth are in harmony with the planet and somehow know that their own life depends on its balance. Throughout history, species have emerged that disrupted the balance locally, but eventually they became extinct due to the damage they caused to their environment or their prey . This is a natural process that occurs in its simplest form .
However, the situation is very different for the species we call human . How did a self-centered creature with such a high degree of ambition to control everything around, the ambition to possess and, more importantly, the ambition to destroy its own species emerge as a result of natural development? One cannot help but think.
Now, let's try to explain the event scientifically before delving into the concept of creation . According to the available findings, the first example of an advanced primate that started walking on two legs was Ororin Thugenesis, which lived 6 million years ago in present-day Kenya. We know that it started walking on two legs due to the femur bone structure in its fossils.
And this species was a hybrid species that could live both on the ground and very skillfully in the trees. But of course it was more of a type of monkey. Over the millions of years that have passed, fossil specimens such as Lucy have begun to be found, showing that these ape-like species have become better and better at walking on two legs .
This showed us that a subspecies was increasingly hanging out on the ground rather than in the trees. and the brain volume was gradually increasing. We skip forward a few million years again and we encounter a species called Homo habilis.
It is the hominin species that used stone tools for the first time in history . Their hands evolved appropriately for tool making , and their brain volume reached 500 to 700 cubic cm. In the following tens of thousands of years, Homo Erectus, Neanderthals, Homo Naledi and Denisovans, the subspecies we call Denisovan, are the ancestors of today's Asian humans.
That's why they differ slightly from people outside Asia . And then we suddenly encounter modern humans, whom we call Homo Sapiens, about 400 thousand years ago. Yes, other species also hunt on two legs, We see that concepts such as using tools, making fire, forming a community develop and the brain grows.
But Homo Sapiens is a really big mess. Why? There may be some of you who say that's why our brains are bigger.
However, that is not exactly the case . The brains of ancient humans called Neanderthals were actually larger than ours. But the difference in our case was the increase in the number of connections in the brain and, more interestingly, the increase in abstract thought and problem-solving capacity .
This is where the rope breaks . Because the evolutionary process follows basic instincts such as adaptation and survival . So, logically, you would expect the muscles to develop, the eyes to see better, etc.
, right? However, these features were much less developed in Homo Sapiens than in their predecessors, Neanderthals. And instead of these, abilities such as dreaming, keeping track of time, and speaking have suddenly leapt .
The sudden leap of these interesting differences and the sudden increase in brain usage power constitute the main theme of our video. and it makes those who like to question ask this question. Isn't the modern human species called homo sapiens a result of natural evolution?
When belief in creation is mentioned, for some reason this incident immediately comes to people's mind. 6 thousand years ago, God created everything, then he shaped clay, said "be" and suddenly man was born. Then he said let it be a nightingale, and it became a nightingale.
There is an incredibly wrong belief that says that there should be salmon in the rivers , that happened, that happened, that happened, and then the world as we know it came into existence. And don't laugh at it, this is unfortunately a very common belief. Well, I have passed everything in its simplest form, Göbekli Tepe is 12 thousand years old.
This alone is enough to make the radical religious creation theory, look, I didn't say normal creation belief, already garbage. I'm not even presenting the thousands of scientific evidences yet . What makes it sad is that today, a significant number of people who believe in creation do not even know what they believe in .
However, the event we call creation is a concept contributed and adopted not only by İbrahim Edinler but also by many other ancient belief systems . And in fact, he claims that everything in the universe, from organic matter to inorganics, from energy to particles, comes from a single point, that is, the creator. In other words, it has nothing to do with the garbage creation belief that I just gave as an example, saying that the world is 6000 years old .
So, if you ask what is the origin of this 6000 year event, you will be truly surprised. In 1581, Irish bishop James Asher read the Torah in his own way, interpreted the family trees in medieval illiterate Europe in his own way, and wrote that Adam, the first prophet, was born in B. C.
He believes that he came to life with the creation of the world in 4004 BC . Thanks to him, he even gave me a day. According to him, the world was born on October 23, B.
C. It was created in 4004 . Later, this crazy claim spread among people in the Middle Ages with the oppressive and irrational administration of the Vatican, which I also mentioned in my videos .
Moreover, according to the corrupt Jewish belief, the world was created in 6 days. In those days, each of them becomes a pattern when combined with the words of a thousand years. Here is the historical origin of an event that millions seriously believe in .
However, the earth is approximately 4. 5 billion years old. By the way, you also come across the 6000-year-old creation event in Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah.
But in fact, it is an event that contains quite different symbolic meanings. As a matter of fact, this shallow approach we are talking about is nothing more than ignorant efforts to interpret and make sense of the ancient Sumerian creation myths in their own way. You know, the Sumerian belief that everything was created in 6 stages, these are distorted versions of it.
Just like you just saw in the example . Anyway, let's move on to the more normal thing. Because belief in creation is not something that can be put into such shallow molds.
If we melt the belief in creation into the common denominator of all religions, we come across the fact that the creator, Allah, Brahma, Lord, whatever its name is, actually created an order. Kün fe ye kun. He says "be" and it is, keep your word.
In the beginning everything was dark. God said let there be light and there was light on his word. From there there was nothing in the beginning.
Then, we come across a similar narrative, including the belief that everything was created through words . And according to this narrative , the creator suddenly brings the universe into existence while existence is still in a state of nothingness . And from this order, over time, first the laws of physics, then matter, then living things, and then humans emerge.
The Almighty is a subject that those who watch my creative video know. In fact, it is as some radical creationists say. The approach "God said let it be a fly and it became a fly", and "he said let it be a cat, it became a cat" is extremely wrong, just like the approach that the world is 6000 years old .
Everything is created and destroyed in an order, within the framework of His will and laws . And it has been going on like this for 14 billion years, that is, since the moment the universe was first formed. In fact, this claim is exactly the same as the theistic evolution view, also known as Bio Logos, of Francis Collins, head of the human genome project .
Francis Collins, just like I just told you, says that the creator established the system and over time everything happened as it should according to his plan . In addition, he believes that humans have developed differently from other subspecies and that their moral and spiritual emotional systems are a blessing from the creator. Well, then, if you are wondering what the idea that God created living things and they never changed again, as claimed by some people who defend creation, is actually a sub-creation belief that emerged due to the opposition to the idea that humans came from monkeys .
Ultimately, although the basic point is the same, in many cultures creation, especially the creation of humans, is divided into various sub-branches. I told you this in my Adam and Eve video. You know, the holy mud thing.
If you haven't watched the other videos in the Creation series, be sure to watch those two videos first. Links are in the description. This is where our paths divide into two.
Some people believe that the creative being creates and creates humans with great care . and they claim that humans are a completely different creature, separate from the evolutionary process. Now, what complicates things here is that , as I have explained to you in dozens of videos, when we examine the history of religions, this belief turns out to be very flawed.
After a while, it turns into the claim that a certain celestial civilization genetically designed humans. Yes, today they listen to Abraham and call those beings Allah under one name. But when we look at history and mythology, things go to different dimensions and minds naturally get confused.
However, in essence, this discussion shows us a very simple possibility, in my opinion, before we add our own ideas or attribute too rigid meanings to what is written in the books . Now, if you are a believer like me, you believe that the universe and everything was created by God, or as I like to call it, the Almighty Creator. Okay, so that also means.
The laws of physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics were created by God so that the system works, right? For example, it is written in the Surah al-Qamar that "We created everything according to a measure. " In Surah Aqara, everything in the heavens and the earth belongs to Him.
It is said that everything depends on its order. These and other similar verses are actually orders that you must believe in the system I just mentioned. So, if we call that system science today and you are a Muslim, you must believe in that system, that is, science, according to the Quran.
Because its creator is Allah. Well, if God tells us to believe in this system, then why do some people find it so difficult to believe in the laws of biology that are His creation? After all, evolution is also a universal law.
If we interpret it according to your belief, couldn't God have planned that when He created everything, at some stage of the process, the planet Earth would be formed, then life would begin in it, and then from that life, human beings would one day be shaped by the evolutionary laws created by Him ? Being an ape a few million years ago Is it the main problem? Don't answer at all.
I'll move on to another comment immediately. There is information in the so-called sacred books that humans were specifically created . That's why you can also say that even if we believe in evolution, we do not believe that we came from monkeys.
Which I kindly agree with, not entirely, but in a few subheadings. As I just said, we have experienced a very strange evolutionary separation from our subspecies ancestors before us . And this so-called evolutionary difference has actually transformed humans from a species that lives in more harmony with the world into a species that tries to control it, exploits it uncontrollably, and tries to irrationally destroy living things other than itself, and is obsessed with development, progress, and acceleration .
So here I am asking this question. What happened during this interval that caused the belt to break and modern humans to enter the stage of history in this way? Scientifically speaking, this was a mutation and we became like this.
That's how it came across. So it was a complete evolutionary genetic coincidence. A gene that increased the brain's emotional processing capacity came to the fore, and over time, people with weaker physical characteristics but more intelligent people emerged than previous ancestors .
According to the universe theory I just mentioned, this is actually an extremely scientifically possible possibility. If we look at it from a creational perspective , there are two options. Either the creator really created humans with these characteristics and sent them to the world, without being a part of the natural process.
In this case, the question arises of what kind of creator could create such a species in such a flawed state . Dozens of physical problems, dozens of genetic diseases, an extremely fragile body and hundreds of other psychological defects. That's why, when you support this claim in such a narrow way , you tend to unintentionally criticize the creator .
So I don't know about you, but this claim doesn't make much sense to me personally. Or if we look at it from a creation perspective, according to both books and myths, a race came from above, took the genetic materials of our ancestors from the world, combined them with their own genes, blended them in some way, and designed modern humans in their own image, with all their strange features. Due to ignorance, people thought that these creatures were the real creators.
Look, I specifically put this under the subheading of creation because the event I just mentioned includes this as well. You know, I said that the creator created the universe and order, and then living things came into being. Perhaps that celestial race before us developed through the normal process of evolution.
Then they came into the world and designed us. Thus, we humans came into existence as a part of the great divine plan and destiny. They only facilitated this.
In the end, just as dozens of sages throughout history and Francis Collins, head of the human genome project in modern times, have said, the creator establishes order and the rest happens as it should. There may be some of you who think it's absurd to evolve naturally from monkeys. Some of you may find it absurd that a creator could have designed an extremely flawed creature like humans with his own hands .
Or, some of you may find it absurd that an alien race has genetically improved humans by taking examples from Neanderthals for their own benefit . Everyone is free in their opinion. When we look at it scientifically, we know that evolution works as a law in this existence and in the world, in a truly proven way .
This fact does not change whether you are an atheist or a member of a religion . It's a law. That's why it doesn't make much sense to discuss the legal aspect of evolution.
It's pointless like debating whether this is real or not. In fact, belief in creation is an approach that accepts this. I remind you again.
If everything comes from God, this law should be a part of it, right? Seeing science as the opposite of faith means that you are making a mistake, even according to the verses of the Quran, of which I have just given only two examples . There are also various verses that are more similar.
What makes things complicated both scientifically and religiously is that when we consider the leap of humanity from other intermediate species after Neanderthal to Homo Sapiens with the normal theory of evolution , we encounter some gaps. For example, why physically? Have we become more helpless?
Why did our ability to think about abstract things suddenly increase and how did our ability to communicate, speak, and produce language suddenly become extremely complex? These are issues that are still being studied, and perhaps one day science may give us the answers. If you say that God created humans, that 's why they are different, the other person will say this.
Then why do we bear such serious evolutionary similarities and residues with our previous ancestral species, even monkeys, as proven by the laws of evolution and as you can see examples in this video ? If God had created humans from scratch with a completely unique design, we wouldn't be so similar to those souls physically and genetically, right? Millions of people around the world still have a spinal protrusion at the end of their back, where the tail used to be.
There are even people born with a tail . At the corner of our eye are the remains of our ancient third eyelid, called the Plica Semilunaris . You know, the membranous structure found in reptiles and amphibians .
In our case, it is in a very vestigial state, so it cannot function. There are hundreds of other examples like these. So if you have a belief in creation , God establishes order.
Afterwards, I think it would be a much more logical and correct approach to say that as a result of these laws, humans were formed where they should be, at the time they should be, within the framework of these laws . The claim of ancient aliens, which is our fantastic claim that combines creation and science, sounds reasonable. But let's face it, this is an extreme claim based on mythology and religious books.
Now, as someone who believes in the creator and the system he established, that is, science, it seems very logical to me to connect evolution and ancient aliens. Because it fills the gaps in my head. And with all the belief systems written down through the ages.
It also overlaps historically with myths and holy books. It even coincides with the fact that humans are so flawed and ambitious. But I cannot accept this as the absolute truth.
Perhaps Homo sapiens became this way as a result of a serious mutation. After all, that's what science tells us. and it proves this beautifully for other species.
And if one day he proves the evolutionary secret of man completely, I will gladly accept it. Ego will do this too. No, my friend, we cannot say that I could not have become a monkey 10 million years ago, I would rather die, right?
Meanwhile, perhaps completely different things may be proven over time. New claims may be made. Maybe the thousands of years old ancient alien claims written in books and myths may also turn out to be true.
Please remember that there are still many details to be discovered and researched on this subject . That's why it's always good to have an open mind. But always keep your feet firmly on the ground.
In short, as you can see, evolution and creation are actually like a dense vine intertwined, excluding radical beliefs. Whether we believe it or not, this universe has existed in some way for 14 billion years, according to scientific laws. And when we stop having these discussions , when we disappear, even when this planet Earth disappears after 4 billion years, the Universe will continue to exist with these laws for billions more years.
What we need to ask ourselves is this. It doesn't matter whether you are a believer or not. How can I understand this order better?
How can I improve myself better ? And how can I better manage to be a part of this infinite whole ? The answer to this is found by reading, researching and opening our minds.
Reading a single book and saying "I have understood everything" is the same as signing up to an online science page and saying "science" like a parrot to every question asked just because it is written there, without doing any research . To research, learn and teach both the philosophical and scientific backgrounds of events . This is how true faith and true science are learned and developed.
Don't be forced to choose a side. You can chart your own path by developing it yourself. See you in the next video .
Take care of yourself.