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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 19

through the works of dialectical materialists such as Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels.
This notion of an infinite universe fit in very well with atheism. It is not
hard to see why. To hold that the universe had a beginning could imply
that it was created and that, of course requires a creator–that is, Allah. It
was much more convenient and safer to circumvent the issue by putting
forward the idea that "the universe exists for eternity", even though there
was not the slightest scientific basis for making such a claim. Georges
Politzer, who espoused and defended this idea in his books published in
the early 20th century, was an ardent champion of both Marxism and ma-
terialism.
Putting his trust in the alleged validity of the "infinite universe" model,
Politzer opposed the idea of Creation in his book Principes Fondamentaux
de Philosophie when he wrote:
The universe was not a created object, if it were, then it would have to
be created instantaneously by God and brought into existence from
nothing. To admit creation, one has to admit, in the first place, the ex-
istence of a moment when the universe did not exist, and that some-
thing came out of nothingness. This is something to which science can
not accede. 3
Politzer supposed that science was on his side in his defense of the idea
of an infinite universe. In fact, science was to prove that the universe in-
deed had a beginning. And just as Politzer himself declared, if there is
Creation then there must also be a creator.

The Expansion of Universe and the Discovery of the
Big Bang
The 1920s were important years in the development of modern astron-
omy. In 1922, the Russian physicist Alexandra Friedman produced compu-
tations showing that the structure of the universe was not static and that
even a tiny impulse might be sufficient to cause the whole structure to ex-
pand or contract according to Einstein's Theory of Relativity. George