That is so wrong and contrary to all the available evidence given by Baha'u'llah, that it needs no response other than this.
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In other words you cannot refute it and have no evidence. But I do. I'll start with the first, but there is much more science to debunk, this is just a sample of some bizarre claims. It isn't even the actual science part.
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Evolution and the True Nature of Man
WE NOW COME to the question of the transformation of species and the evolutionary development of organs, that is, whether man has come from the animal kingdom.
So if we were to imagine a time when man belonged to the animal kingdom, that is, when he was merely an animal, existence would have been imperfect. This means that there would have been no man, and this chief member, which in the body of the world is like the mind and the brain in a human being, would have been lacking, and the world would thus have been utterly imperfect. This is sufficient proof in itself that if there had been a time when man belonged to the animal realm, the completeness of existence would have been destroyed; for man is the chief member of the body of this world, and a body without its chief member is undoubtedly imperfect. We regard man as the chief member because, among all created things, he encompasses all the perfections of existence.”
As we know, homo sapiens are great apes and 100% part of the animal kingdom (many other groups as well) and he clearly wasn't aware of the future science from DNA, to large scale and fossil records.
Not only was the world not imperfect but it lasted for billions of years without human. Only 200,000 years out of 3.5 billion were we around.
These claims are absurd crank.
“Now, were one to establish the existence of vestigial organs, this would not disprove the independence and originality of the species. At most it would prove that the form, appearance, and organs of man have evolved over time. But man has always been a distinct species; he has been man, not an animal.”
Here he understands vestigal organs have begun to be found and uses an apologetic to hand wave it away. Bahai was supposed to follow science. It appears that was wrong, they deny science.
He isn't yet aware of the fossil record for hominids yet because he's making several weird arguments for man being not-animal -
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The first answer to this argument is that the antecedence of animals to man is not a proof that the essence of the human species was altered or transformed or that man came from the animal kingdom."
Essence? Each hominid changed slightly ending with H. Sapien. That is what happened. Still animals, mammal and so on
Another kind of healing is through the force of bodily magnetism, where the magnetic force of one body affects another body and brings about the cure. This force, too, has only a slight effect. Thus someone may lay his hand upon the head or stomach of a patient and perchance the latter will benefit from this. Why? Because the effect of the magnetism, and the impression made upon the psyche of the patient, may dispel the disease. But this effect is also very slight and weak.
Ok, healing magnetism. Wow, that's not crank pseudo science. Why did he believe that? Well, - In the 18th and 19th centuries Franz Mesmer dramatically increased the popularity of magnetic healing with his “animal magnetism.” He thought that animal magnetism was a unique force of nature that flowed like a fluid through living things. He also thought he could manipulate it through a combination of hypnotism and
laying on of hands. Yeah, he's not getting this from a God.
The two other kinds are spiritual; that is, the means of healing is a spiritual power. One is when a healthy person focuses his whole attention upon a sick person, and the latter in turn fully expects to be healed through the spiritual power of the former and is wholly convinced thereof, to such an extent that a strong connection is created between their hearts
Spiritualism was also believed to have healing powers. There were those in the movement known as “spiritualist doctors” who subscribed to the ideas of Anton Mesmer. Mesmer - a 18th Century physician - believed that the body was governed by a magnetic fluid and, when an imbalance occurred, it could cause all manner of ailments.
This type of crank continues to find no credible evidence and kill many who suffer from terminal cancer who use alternate new age methods over chemo.
Some Answered Questions | Bahá’í Reference Library
So God wanted to tell people all about a bunch of crank anti-science in the 1800's? The entire paper is full of complete junk science. Now magnetism and electromagnetism were united by Maxwell soon after. He could have said something about that, or that EM was a wave?
Like I said, his science is all wrong.
There is cosmic stuff in that paper knowing nothing about a big bang, other galaxies or anything cosmological except what was already known at the time.