Page 345 - Darwinism Refuted

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

George Politzer, for example, an ardent Marxist and one of the
twentieth century's biggest advocates of the materialist philosophy, gave
the "bus example" supposedly as an important evidence on this subject.
According to Politzer, even those philosophers who espouse the fact that
we merely deal with the copy of matter in our brains run away when they
see a bus about to run them over. 398
Samuel Johnson, another famous materialist, was told that one can
never have direct experience of the original matter, and tried to deny this
reality by giving one of them a kick. 399
There are similar examples in the books of famous materialists such as
Marx, Engels, Lenin, and others along with impetuous sentences such as,
"You understand the real nature of matter when you are slapped in the face."
The point where materialists are mistaken is that they think the
concept of "perception" only applies to the sense of sight. In fact, all
sensations, such as touch, contact, hardness, pain, heat, cold and wetness
also form in the human brain, in precisely the same way that visual
images are formed. For instance, someone who feels the cold metal of the
door as he gets off a bus, actually "feels the cold metal" in his brain. This
is a clear and well-known truth. As we have already seen, the sense of
touch forms in a particular section of the brain, through nerve signals
from the fingertips, for instance. It is not your fingers that do the feeling.
People accept this because it has been demonstrated scientifically.
However, when it comes to the bus hitting someone, not just to his feeling
the metal of the indoor—in other words when the sensation of touch is
more violent and painful—they think that this fact somehow no longer
applies. However, pain or heavy blows are also perceived in the brain.
Someone who is hit by a bus feels all the violence and pain of the event in
his brain.
In order to understand this better, it will be useful to consider our
dreams. A person may dream of being hit by a bus, of opening his eyes in
hospital later, being taken for an operation, the doctors talking, his
family's arrival at the hospital, and that he is crippled or suffers terrible
pain. In his dream, he perceives all the images, sounds, feelings of
hardness, pain, light, the colors in the hospital, all aspects of the incident
in fact, very clearly and distinctly. They are all as natural and believable

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