Page 697 - Atlas of Creation Volume 4

Harun Yahya

My ma jor con cern, com ing out of the ranks of sci ence, has been my own ar ro gance. How ar ro gant I was, to
put down oth er peo ple’s ideas that didn’t agree with my sci en tif ic view. When I went around the world and
spent time with in dig e nous peo ples and tribes, I re al ized that my ar ro gance just didn’t fit in. Like the man in
the sto ry by H. G. Wells, I thought that in the coun try of sci en tif i cal ly blind, the one-eyed man would be king.
In fact, I was the one who was blind. I was in tel lec tu al ly in ca pac i tat ed. As long as I held on to my sci en tif ic

view, I couldn’t see. I thought I saw ev ery thing; I didn’t see any thing. So I had to give up much of what I pre -
vi ous ly held as re al, in or der to see what these peo ple saw. And when I was fi nal ly able to at tain this new vi -
sion, it to tal ly changed my view of sci ence. And I be gan see ing sci ence as a tool—not the be–all and end-all

of the uni verse, but a tool to help us be gin to dig deep er in to the na ture of what it means to be a hu man be -
ing. I don’t think we’ve ar rived at that point yet. I don’t think we’re quite awake yet. I think we are all still
asleep—dream ing, hop ing, wish ing—me chan i cal ly re ly ing on our in tel lect to lead us out of the mo rass in
which we con stant ly find our selves. When we can use our heart and our spir it as well as our brain, that’s
when sci ence will be gin to adapt to a new world or der. 110

Wolf is em pha siz ing that sci ence is sim ply a ve hi cle for un der stand ing the cre a tion that per vades the

uni verse. That sub lime cre a tion be longs to Allah alone. Allah, the Lord of all, is the on ly ab so lute Entity.
Human be ings can see what He has cre at ed by us ing their brains, and sci ence can dis cov er them and un -
der stand the art ist ry and sub lim i ty in them. Science is on ly a means of reach ing Allah’s works and see -
ing the de tails in them.

Another writer to have re al ized this is Craig Hamilton, ed i tor of the jour nal What Is Enlightenment?:

But as years passed, and my in bred ag nos ti cism grad u al ly gave way to a com mit ted spir it u al quest, I soon
be gan to have ex pe ri en ces of a deep er re al i ty, far be yond any thing de scribed in my sci ence text books. In the
face of this un fold ing world of mean ing, pur pose, and mys tery, the no tion that sci ence held the keys to ul ti -
mate truth be gan to seem in creas ing ly hard to ac cept . . . .

Yet when I see ev o lu tion a ry bi ol o gists us ing the un prov en dog mas of neo-Darwinian the o ry to con vince our
kids that they live in a pur pose less uni verse, my sym pa thies to ward sci ence start to fade once again. 111

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