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with full assurance that man is not alien to nature, but a part of nature. His
true destiny is to guide the future course of evolution on earth towards
greater fulfillment”. 163

In reality Huxley’s movement was a baseless and grave error, be-
cause Allah, the Lord of the Universe, is the force behind the perfect
Creation seen on earth. Man, so ignorantly exalted by Darwinists, has
been created from nothing by Allah and he is a helpless being depen-
dent on him. Allah reveals that life on earth is one of his miracles:
As for the earth, We stretched it out and cast firmly embedded moun-
tains in it and made everything grow in due proportion on it. And We
put livelihoods in it both for you and for those you do not provide
for. There is nothing that does not have its stores with Us and We on-
ly send it down in a known measure. We send forth the pollinating
winds and send down water from the sky and give it to you to drink.
And it is not you who keep its stores. It is We who give life and cause
to die and We are the Inheritor. (Surat al-Hijr: 19-23)
Huxley’s irrational ideas suggested

that the so-called “sacred” purpose of
mankind was to quicken his own evo-
lution and these ideas deeply influ-
enced the American philosopher
and education reformer John
Dewey.
Dewey developed this idea
further, and founded in 1933 a new
movement by the name of “religious
humanism”. He was one of the thirty-
four signatories of the famous Humanist
Manifesto. The main principle pro-
The American materialist
philosopher John Dewey claimed in this manifesto was the lie

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)