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an objective reality. Using the false aut- While this totalitarian approach im-
hority bestowed by this deception, they poses the theory of evolution on society
call on other religious believers to follow as a scientific fact, it also keeps a tight
them. According to the evolutionist’s ar- reign on scientific circles. Most present-
gument, if other religions accept evoluti- day biologists worship the pagan religion
on and the concepts that follow from it, in question, and any who do not share
then all socio-political measures based that belief are silenced. In this system,
on evolution will be perceived as a moral the theory of evolution becomes a sacred
teaching. cow. Scientists who reject evolution lose
George Gaylord Simpson, one of the any chance of rising in their careers.
most important figures in the neo-Darwi- The well-known professor of ana-
nist movement, makes this clear: tomy Thomas Dwight describes this as
an intellectual dictatorship:
Of course there are some beliefs still cur-
rent, labeled as religious and involved in The tyranny of the zeitgeist in the
religious emotions that are flatly incom- matter of evolution is overwhelming to
patible with evolution and therefore are a degree of which outsiders have no idea.
intellectually untenable in spite of their Not only does it influence (as I admit it
emotional appeal. Nevertheless, I take it does in my own case) our manners of
as now self-evident, requiring no further thinking, but there is oppression as in the
special discussion, that evolution and tru- days of the Terror. How very few of the
e religion are compatible. 158 leaders of science dare tell the truth con-
This implies that evolution and the cerning their own state of mind. 159
scientific teachings developed on the ba-
sis of it have the authority to judge other
religions. It will be up to evolutionist sci-
ence to decide which religions or which
interpretation will be regarded as the
“true” one. The teaching referred to as
true religion makes no claims regarding
the observable universe and that makes
do solely with setting out moral criteria
for human beings. Everything to do with
the observable universe—science, eco-
nomics, politics, law, etc—is to be deter-
mined in the light of an evolutionary
conception.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)