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most a materialist and then a scientist':
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us
accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the con-
trary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to
create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce
material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how
mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so
we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. 34
These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma kept alive
just for the sake of adherence to the materialist philosophy. This
dogma maintains that there is no being save matter. Therefore, it ar-
gues that inanimate, unconscious matter created life. It insists that mil-
lions of different living species; for instance, birds, fish, giraffes, tigers,
insects, trees, flowers, whales and human beings originated as a result
of the interactions between matter such as the pouring rain, the light-
ning flash, etc., out of inanimate matter. This is a precept contrary both
to reason and science. Yet Darwinists continue to defend it just so as
'not to allow a Divine Foot in the door.'
Anyone who does not look at the origin of living beings with a ma-
terialist prejudice will see this evident truth: All living beings are
works of a Creator, Who is All-Powerful, All-Wise and All-Knowing.
This Creator is Allah, Who created the whole universe from non-exis-
tence, designed it in the most perfect form, and fashioned all living be-
ings.

THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
IS THE MOST POTENT SPELL IN THE WORLD
It needs to be made clear that anyone free of prejudice and the influ-
ence of any particular ideology, who uses only his reason and logic,
will clearly understand that belief in the theory of evolution, which
brings to mind the superstitions of societies with no knowledge of sci-
ence or civilization, is quite impossible.
As has been explained above, those who believe in the theory of evo-
lution think that a few atoms and molecules thrown into a huge vat
could produce thinking, reasoning professors, university students, sci-