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Harun Yahya

Stanley Sobottka, a professor of physics from Virginia University, describes
the perversion of materialism in these terms:

If we believe this way [believe in materialism], we must conclude that everything,
including ourselves and all of life, is governed completely by physical law. Physi-
cal law is the only law governing our desires, our hopes, our ethics, our goals, and

our destinies. Matter and energy must be our primary focus, the object of all of our
desires and ambitions. Specifically, this means that our lives must be focused on
Stanley Sobottka
acquiring material goods (including bodies), or at least rearranging or exchanging
them, in order to produce the maximum material satisfaction and pleasure. We

must expend all of our energy in this quest, for there can be no other goal. And in all of this, we have no
choice, because we are totally governed by physical law. We may feel trapped by these beliefs and desires,
but we cannot shake them. They totally dominate us.

A succinct, personalized, summary statement of materialist philosophy is, “I am a body.” 1

In Ancient Greece, materialists held that religious adherents were illogically opposed to science. For
that reason, materialists throughout history have sought to give the impression that belief in Allah and
science are incompatible. In fact, however, science has increasingly showed evidence of His existence,
and those discoveries worked against the materialist mindset that fought against belief in Allah.

This included Darwinism, of course. The struggle against Darwinism is basically an attack on its ma-
terialist origins. Throughout the course of history, materialists claimed that entities consisted merely of
assemblages of atoms, and that the human brain was nothing more than a network of neurons. They
were unable to account for the human mind, and attempted to explain it as the electro-chemical inter-

action between its neurons.
Materialists had no qualms about describing themselves as animals or machines. They denied that
they had the status of entities with consciousness and claimed that they had come into existence by
chance. Yet this was a grave misconception and a lie fabricated in order to deny Allah.

In the words of the quantum particle physicist Stephen M. Barr, of the Bar tol Research Institute at
the University of Delaware, these people who believed in the absolute reality of matter were almost no
different from the pagans of the past. Just like the ancient pagans, materialists describe humans as es-
sentially sub-human. Pagans deified matter; materialists did the same thing by denying the soul and re-

ducing everything to the level of matter. Pagans declared that events were determined by the orbits of
the planets and the stars; materialists claimed that they were controlled by the ebb and flow of the hor-
mones in their brains. Pagans prostrated themselves to worship in front of false animal deities; materi-
alists claimed that they were no more than animals themselves. 2

Amit Goswami, a professor of physics at the University of Oregon’s Institute for Theoretical Science, de-
scribes the fundamental logic with which materialists sought to indoctrinate people:

We are conditioned to believe that we are machines—that all our actions are determined by the stimuli we receive
and by our prior conditioning. As exiles, we have no responsibility, no choice; our free will is a mirage. 3

The fact is, however, that Allah created man. And man is not an entity devoid of purpose and re-
sponsibility. Contrary to what materialists claim, man is not an unthinking machine. Man is an entity

with a responsibility to Allah and will be held to account for all his deeds in the Hereafter.
The materialist logic that seeks to divert people away from this fact has been evident at all times
throughout history, ever since the days of Ancient Greece. Yet it was only in the 19 century that this be-
th
lief spread and became established as a settled intellectual system. In the 19 century, the great majori-
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ty of classical physicists thought that the fundamental components of matter were inanimate and indi-
visible atoms, just like tiny billiard balls, and that the perfect regularity and complexity in the universe
were the result of the random motion and compounds of these atoms. In their view, everything on Earth,
life included, came into being by accident through a series of blind, unconscious processes. Atoms es-

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