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been dealt a severe blow by scientific progress and research carried
out in the 21st century, and its alleged scientific underpinnings have
been totally invalidated. Every new discovery, every scientific ad-
vance, has revealed the fact that the universe is a flawless product of
creation. The universe is not eternal and infinite, as materialists
would have us believe, and did not come into being as the result of
mechanical developments and influences. God created the universe
and everything within it, and when the time appointed by our Lord
comes, the universe will come to an end, as will all human beings and
other entities.
On account of his materialist way of thinking, however, Haeckel
rejected the Divine religions and the humanity and compassion im-
parted by religious moral values. He praised the "artificial human se-
lection" practiced by the Spartans (members of the Greek city-state
founded in the 9th century BC that rejected art, philosophy and litera-
ture and was built solely on military force) by defending eugenic bar-
barity. During the time of the Spartans, under a special law, newly
born babies were subjected to careful examination, those who were
weak, sickly or had physical defects were ruthlessly killed. Only
strong and perfectly healthy children were allowed to live. Haeckel
defended this barbaric Spartan practice that envisaged the murder of
innocent babies. 4
This is how Haeckel responded to those who criticized him:
What good does it do to humanity to maintain artificially and rear
the thousands of cripples, deaf-mutes, idiots, etc., who are born
every year with an hereditary burden of incurable disease? 5

No doubt, this logical framework that Haeckel proposed is inhu-
man. According to him, feelings of love, compassion and affection
should be directed solely towards those who can be of benefit. This
selfish attitude flourishes under the twin influences of materialism
and Darwinism. People who live by religious moral values, however,
feel compassion for the needy and seek to protect them, even if they
have nothing at all to gain by doing so. That is true humanity. For ex-
ample, it is revealed in the Qur'an that true believers offer food to the

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