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n the present day, there are people who live in a man-
ner far removed from God, and who even reject faith
and deny the existence of God for their own ends. On
account of their blindness and mindless fearlessness,
they try to influence others and turn them away from
God. They have put forward a whole range of incon-

sistent ideas and twisted ideologies by which to do
this. One of these is the theory of evolution.

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The aspect of Darwinism that stops it from being a claim of inter-
est only to the scientific world and makes it of great importance
to society as a whole is its ideological dimension. The an-
swer it gives to the question of how living things, in-
cluding mankind, came into existence makes
Darwinism the basis of a number of philoso-
phies, worldviews and political ideologies.
Here, we shall consider the relation-
ship between Darwinism and mate-
rialist philosophy. Materialist
philosophy, or "material-
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