Page 63 - The importance of conscience in the Qur'an

Why Don't People Follow Their Conscience in
Spite of Knowing the Truth? 61

is clear to them… (Surat al-Baqara: 109)
Those We have given the Book recognise it as
they recognise their own sons. Yet a group of
them knowingly conceal the truth. (Surat al-
Baqara: 146)

How can someone recognise the truth but resist
it so firmly and deliberately?
In the chapter 'Evidence of Allah's existence can be seen
through conscience', we used evolutionist scientists as an
example of those who reject Allah despite seeing the evidence
of His being with their own eyes. Renowned British zoologist
and evolutionist D.M.S. Watson explains why he and his
colleagues have accepted evolution:
If so, it will present a parallel to the theory of evolution
itself, a theory universally accepted not because it can
be proved by logically coherent evidence to be true but
because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly
incredible. (Watson, D.M.S. (1929), Adaptation.
Nature: 124 pp. 231-4.)
What Watson means by 'special creation' is the creation
of Allah. This is what scientists find 'clearly incredible', and yet
science proves the truth of creation. The only reason Watson
considers this incredible is the way he has conditioned himself
to think. This holds true for all other evolutionists. In the
Qur'an, such people are referred to as follows:
They repudiated them wrongly and haughtily,
in spite of their own certainty about them.
See the final fate of the corrupters. (Surat an-
Naml: 14)
Among the reasons for rejecting truth are vanity and