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Harun Yahya

According to McFarlane, the reason why these time-travelers were unable to convince anyone
the Earth is round is that we humans are so very small in comparison to the Earth. Since our exper-
iment is confined to a geographically very small area, the Earth appears to be flat, even though it is
not actually so. In other words, the flatness observed on Earth is not a true flatness at all, because

the Earth is not flat. This is only an illusory flatness caused by the immense size of the Earth.
In order to prove that the Earth is round, we need to go beyond our day-to-day limitations.
For instance, we could fly around the world in a plane, or we could go up into space in a rocket.
But when limited to our day-to-day experiences, we have no evidence that the flatness we per-

ceive is an illusion. Similarly, we have no reason not to believe that the Earth is flat.
After citing this example, McFarlane goes on to say:

If people have been so deluded about reality in the past, how can we be so sure that we are not delud-
ed now? As we have seen, just because our present notions of reality are consistent with our ordinary
experience, does not make them true. Since our experience certainly has its limits, perhaps our idea of

the objective world really is an illusion, just as much an illusion as the idea of a flat Earth. 27

The Idea of Absolute Matter Has Disappeared Alongside
Materialism

The conclusion revealed by quantum mechanics is that matter is not absolute and eternal, as
materialists claim it to be. In the same way that matter is not timeless or eternal, the entities we

see around us are not simply collections of atoms. According to quantum physics, matter has
changed its nature in a way that materialists never dreamed of, and it has been scientifically
proven that the basis of matter is simply a form of energy. In the face of the facts revealed by
quantum physics, materialism has scientifically collapsed.

Paul Davies and John Gribbin summarize the way in which the new physics has entirely
eliminated materialism:

It is fitting that physics—the science that gave rise to materialism— should also signal the demise of
materialism. During this century the new physics has blown apart the central tenets of materialist
doctrine in a sequence of stunning developments. First came the theory of relativity, which demol-

ished Newton’s assumptions about space and time . . . Then came the quantum theory, which total-
ly transformed our image of matter. 28

Fred Alan Wolf describes how scientists have now abandoned materialism:

Some of us, including many scientists, don’t agree with the new objective materialism. We believe in
our heart of hearts, as did the alchemists that came before us, that something far richer than materi-
alism is responsible for the universe. 29

What is the result of the collapse of materialism? The stubborn opinion that matter is the on-
ly absolute reality is one of the greatest deceptions that prevents people from believing in Allah.

Instead of regarding the external world as the composite of their perceptions, they behave as if
they had direct experience with everything they perceive. They apply the lack of purpose that
materialism ascribes to matter to themselves, imagining that there is no reason for their existence

on—or departure from—the Earth. Since they are unable to see and believe in the proofs of the
existence of Allah, they expect Him to appear to them as a corporeal entity (surely Allah is be-
yond that). They believe that entities were never created, for which reason they never want to ac-
cept the existence of a Creator.
Using materialism as a pretext, they try to seek to deny the absolute existence of Allah and

His creation. The collapse of materialism has eliminated that pretext and revealed full proof of
the existence of Allah.

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