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It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us
accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the con-
trary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to cre-
ate an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce mate-
rial explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mysti-
fying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we can-
not allow a Divine [intervention]... 45
These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma kept alive
just for the sake of adherence to materialism. This dogma maintains that
there is no being save matter. Therefore, it argues that inanimate, uncon-
scious matter brought life into being. It insists that millions of different
living species (e.g., birds, fish, giraffes, tigers, insects, trees, flowers,
whales, and human beings) originated as a result of the interactions be-
tween matter such as pouring rain, lightning flashes, and so on, out of
inanimate matter. This is a precept contrary both to reason and science.
Yet Darwinists continue to ignorantly defend it just so as not to acknowl-
edge, in their own eyes, the evident existence of Allah.
Anyone who does not look at the origin of living beings with a ma-
terialist prejudice sees this evident truth: All living beings are works of
a Creator, Who is All-Powerful, All-Wise, and All-Knowing. This Creator
is Allah, Who created the whole universe from non-existence, in the most
perfect form, and fashioned all living beings.

The Theory of Evolution: The Most

Potent Spell in the World

Anyone free of prejudice and the influence of any particular ideolo-
gy, who uses only his or her reason and logic, will clearly understand that
belief in the theory of evolution, which brings to mind the superstitions of
societies with no knowledge of science or civilization, is quite impossible.
As explained above, those who believe in the theory of evolution
think that a few atoms and molecules thrown into a huge vat could pro-

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