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Editorial | DOI: https://doi.org/10.31579/ jcobs.19/006
*Corresponding Author: Othman Salim Hussein Al-Fleesy, Associate Professor of Forensic Medicine, Department of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Aden University, Aden city, South Yemen.
Citation: Othman Salim HF (2019) A The major error of the great scientist Francis crick was: the astonishing hypothesis: the scientific searching for the soul.J.Clinical obesity and Beriatric Surgery 2(1): DOI: 10.31579/ jcobs.19/006
Copyright: © 2019 Othman Salim HF. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Received: 23 October 2019 | Accepted: 01 November 2019 | Published: 07 November 2019
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Needless to say that Francis Crick (1916-2014) was one of the most important scientists in the world .He is a physicist and biochemist who collaborated with James Watson in the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA –Feb 28,1953.In fact, number of scientists deviated from their main field and specialty to another different specialty after winning the Nobel prize ,although they haven’t a scientific background for such new scope. Perhaps under the umbrella of Noble prize and success in their fields, may led them to think that by this new field may achieve another success. Inevitably, this scientists has lost their interests in their field and found that there is no another important research to continue studying in it.For this reason the scientist resorts to another scientific scope. Some may regain and succeed, while others may fail as a result of not making the right choice. I was astonished by Francis's book entitled: The astonishing hypothesis the scientific searching for the soul. And his declaration frankly –during his life- that he is an atheist , which means that he denied the God and his creatures including the soul. Clearly, he did not know what soul means to all people in different religions. Also, he ignored that the soul does not submit to search or research according to the God words. This was a fool claim (scientific searching the soul), from the believers point of view whatever their religion. With this false claim, Francis was at the same level as the Korean scientist who claimed that he made human cloning. The soul is the creature of the God and no one knows it whatever his science, even the prophets didn’t know what a soul is? , only the God knows. This is found in holy texts of all religions and the story of asking the prophet Mohamed (peace be upon him) about soul is known. The prophet answered them with God words: ALLAH says in the Holy Qur'an : (They ask thee concerning the Spirit (of inspiration). Say: “The Spirit (cometh) by command of my Lord: of knowledge it is only a little that (is communicated to you1) Francis had studied new field and specialty , neuroanatomy and neuroscience, which in the 1980s became his main field of research , as he stated , but I did not believe such claim , he might read the topic but not studied. Because the study programs of universities do not accept to get a doctorate in his age. This seems to Me too late to have a complete and perfect systemic study as in university. Francis scientific base was non-medical sciences (biochemistry and physics).Francis was lacking the information of all basic and clinical subjects of a regular medical student to be a physician, lacking the sciences of: anatomy, physiology, embryology , neurology and nervous system, surgery , internal medicine …etc. He was lacking the integrated system of the medical curriculum in medical colleges. He read these subjects superficially as a new old student, because at that time his age and attitude would not permit him to studying these medical subjects in medical college. With this little knowledge , he thought that he discovered a new science , and forgot that this is a well-known science for specialists in : physiology , medicine , anatomy , neurosurgery and nervous system , and many other disciplines. That was why he had called another scientist to help him. Crick was struck by the many different and unconnected disciplines in neuroscience. I, as a physician , I saw that he could not add anything to science by this information ,except his proposal , which he admitted that this has no evidence, and proved that he ignored many scientific knowledge in these fields , despite that he was a great scientist in the field of his discovery. He thought that this information is a new one, while it is well known to medical doctors , and this is the basic theoretical information of these fields : anatomy , physiology , neuroscience etc. How many patients did he examine suffering from consciousness disorders or psychiatric disorders?. He was not a physician and he was not saturated with these sciences during his journey in science, he was a guest to these new scientific fields. That is why he has many conflicts and contradiction (see photo) Look at Francis's admiration and pride for their DNA model made of iron ,but he forgot to admire the universe and its creator.
Allah says :(Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created?)3-17.
(And at the sky - how it is raised?)3-18.(And at the mountains - how they are erected?)3-19.(And at the earth - how it is spread out?)3-20. Really , the scientist who isn’t attracted by the organized universe what mind he holds?. Some readers said that they were astonished by these strange ideas and they called Francis fool, , but I can say : he was not a Wiseman. He admitted that the evidence is not strong for his proposal , but he claimed that it might provide new guidelines for future research. Here , I ask : what scientific base did he put for future studies ?.How could he convince himself by such wrong research and planned to be continued by others in future?. With no doubt Francis was having no Evidence as he admitted. I Think that no one would continue this unscientific and wrong approach and aim. Because in advance no one will succeed at all whatever his science or relegion.I don’t care about his discussion in regard to consciousness because his search for consciousness is a known theoretical information that is dispersed in many fields and disciplines unrelated to soul. Francis wanted to group different interlocking operations into one sentence.
This hypothesis (scientific searching for the soul) is so alien to the ideas of all people alive today, either scientists , scholars or lay people. Again , if a mind is not guided by the existence of God, then what mind one holds?. In searching soul ,Francis Crick tried to split the hair with fingers having no nails and mouth having no teeth and having no sharp edged instrument. All religions hold that soul(the essence of that human being) exists in one's body and leaves the body causing death.
. When a person dies his soul leaves the body. In all the religions , there is broad agreement on this point: People have souls, with no doubt. These beliefs are held, strongly and aggressively, by almost all majority of human beings alive today till the day of resurrection. People , whatever their religion believe that a soul, not subject to our known scientific laws ,or theories. Soul is not a myth. It is with the hand of the GOD. Why should this basic concept of the soul be doubted to Francis?. And why did Francis Crick leave out all rules and many things? I think the answer is that because he has no religion and no faith,. He is atheist.Francis wondered: at what point during biological evolution did the first organism have a soul?. At what moment does a baby get a soul?. He had put this question and thought that he had put the most difficult and puzzling question to all people , scientists , scholars, while the answer is too easy , because this question he put, was easily answered by the prophet Mohamed peace be upon him in his Hadith. The prophet said:
If the sperm has passed forty-two nights, God sent her a king and photographed her and created her hearing, sight, skin, flesh and bone.(Narrated by Muslim).Then after this period (42 days) , the king is sent, and the spirit is breathed into him.
Francis Crick straddles a wide gap in his research between neuroscience and soul by claim scientific searching for the soul , which is with no doubt a false claim, and there is no base for logic scientific method or discussion in such research and because soul is not a material thing holding by the hand or seeing by eyes or microscope or investigating by test tubes in Laboratories .Francis Crick declared that he has an evidence that the soul merely is a person's mental activities that result from brain function and nerve cells and its existence with human brain and neurons. This research was absurd and a waste of time.it is a strange study never happened before or it would be happened in future , easily because Francis denied the religion and the God , so for this reason he might not believe in soul as he an atheist. But , the question poses itself :how could an atheist not recognize the existence of God searching the creature of the God the (soul).In my view, there is a clear contradiction in the claim of atheism. Perhaps some exaggerate this claim while in the heart of themselves do not find it. Crick could not search , analyze or define soul. Because soul has only one definition found in all holy texts, it is an order of the God (the creator).the necessity of religion for people is the necessity for life, with no religion you have no life and no peace. Those who didn't have religion and rules would be in conflict all life………..,they live in tight , distress , unstable long life.
Allah says: (And whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed life, and We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind)4
religion is based on the things people have come to believe without scientific explanation. Man creates on instinct. Crick does dance around the target with his many various guesses about how the brain works, but didn't know it,in fact not
only Francis didn't know , but also the science still puzzling in front of nervous system, despite all known information.Finally , I remind you that in the history of science there were many scientists' errors , two of them were the two major errors of two greatest scientists.(1) Einstein and his cosmological factor.(2) Francis with his astonishing hypothesis: scientific searching for the soul. book.
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