Is it true that chimpanzees are the closest creatures to humans in terms of intelligence?

- Is it an evidence for evolution? Does our Lord seem to be testing us through Darwinism?

Dear Brother / Sister,

The animal that is closest to man in terms of intelligence is the horse. The monkey is close to man in terms of anatomy. 

The fact that living things are similar and that DNA and cell structures have a lot in common is not an evidence for evolution but that the creator of all of them is the same.   

You know that the laws of growth, development and differentiation, and even reproduction in all plants, animals and humans are similar. Respiration and the use of air in living organisms take place based on the same laws in all living things. Most importantly, cells are renewed and changed all the time in all living things; biological changes continue until they die.

Endless knowledge and will, and endless power are necessary in order to do and manage them properly. Allah, who created them for the first time, is the one that will do them.

They cannot be the work of chance and nature.

It is necessary to know the levels of intelligence of both the ape and man in order to compare them in terms of intelligence. It is possible to present them in outline but it is not so easy to present their true values.

Some researchers claim that human beings can use only ten percent of their intelligence capacity. The measurement and function of intelligence is the subject of the researchers in this field. Research on these issues will probably continue until Doomsday but no one will be able to claim that they have settled it. For, when you solve something unknown, many other unknown issues emerge from it. 

The universe is thoroughly equipped with knowledge. What man needs to do is explain the book of the universe and to know its creator, worshipping Him and prostrating before Him by praising Him.

Those who want to use science in favor of the positivist philosophy based on atheism are interested in the theory of evolution more than others and they make a lot of fuss about it. For, the advocates of the philosophy of evolution do not accept a creator and attribute the emergence of man to chance and to the evolution of inferior life forms.

Heavenly religions declare that everything is the work and art of Allah, that even an atom is not unattended, that man is created directly as a human being in the most perfect way. They state that man has an obligation to obey and worship his creator, that the world is a place of testing, that man will be questioned for what he does or for his duties that he does not fulfill and that there is reward and punishment in the hereafter.

Man is tested through everything and any moment. The presentation of the philosophy of evolution under the name of scientific knowledge is one of the greatest tests today. Many people are under the influence of propaganda that science has proved evolution and hence there is no creator.

This is why the theory of evolution is insistently defended. In other words, they aim to deny and ignore the creator. 

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