The First Molecular Biologist of the World

THE FIRST MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST OF THE WORLD - THE GREATEST OF ALL PHILOSOPHERS AND SCIENTISTS OF ALL ERAS (IMAM ALI IBN E ABI TALIB as). “And at the very heart of life on earth - the proteins that control cell chemistry and the nucleic acid (DNA) that carry hereditary instructions - we find these molecules to be identical in all the plants and animals. An oak tree and I (Carl Sagan) are made of the same stuff. If you go far enough back, we have a common ancestor.” Cosmos:Carl Sagan,page 24. The above paragraph is taken form the best selling science book ‘Cosmos’ by a great science man and atheist: Carl Sagan, Director of Viking mission to mars at NASA. The main point of the above paragraph is that all living things are the same with respect to their fundamental ingredients. All the living things, from virus to human beings, have chromosomes for storing genetic information, the chromosomes are made of DNA just as a cloth or your shirt is made of fine continuous thread. And Carl Sagan’s conclusion on this phenomenon (similarity of all living things) is that it proves the common ancestry of all the living things. Now coming to another paragraph, but not from Carl Sagan's book, but from Nahjul Balagha, the paragraph is as follows, “If you tread on the path of your thinking and reach it's extremity it will not lead you anywhere except that the originator of the ant is the same as he who is the originator of the date palm, because everything has same delicacy and detail and every living being has little difference.” Nahjul Balagha: sermon.183, page 305. A thousand year old copy of Nahjul Balagha is still available at the library of Mosul, Iraq. The main point of the above paragraph of Imam Ali (a.s) is same as that of Carl Sagan's; that there is very little difference between-living-things. On analysis of the above mentioned paragraphs, it appears as if Carl Sagan and Imam Ali (a.s) are contemporaries, but everyone knows that Imam Ali (a.s) lived 1400 years before Carl Sagan. It is amazing that a man living in 700 AD in Arabia, the land of sand, ignorance, wars and scarce water should know that living things are made of the same stuff, and that there is very less difference between them. But amazingly Imam Ali (a.s) establishes a very different conclusion from the similarity among living things; that they have the same creator. Carl Sagan, a hardcore atheist and Imam Ali (a.s), a hardcore believer in God, as expected amazingly, reached the opposite conclusions about the same phenomenon (similarity of living things). A believer can accept both the conclusions and still have his faith intact, but if an atheist accepts Imam Ali’s (a.s) conclusion then he has to loose his atheism. DNA was discovered in 1950, and we know that all living things from virus, bacteria, and plants to human beings are made of DNA. So it is very correct to say that living things have little difference among them. At this stage the saying of the PROPHET (Pbuh) of Islam: ''I am the city of knowledge and Ali (a.s) is It’s gate, is realized in its greatness. ALL THE PRAISES ARE DUE TO ALLAH.