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However, human beings do not come into existence as the result of
blind chance. God creates them, and behind human creation there is a
purpose that is revealed in the Qur'an:

I only created jinn and man to worship Me. (Surat adh-Dhariyat, 56)
Humans are responsible for every action they perform throughout
the course of their lives, and will have to account for every moment in
the Hereafter. Those like Haeckel, who incite others to suicide and mur-
der, are doubtless assuming a grave responsibility for which they will
be unable to account.
In his Wonders of Life, Haeckel claimed that newborn babies were
deaf and devoid of consciousness (which is not the case), and thus did
not have a human soul. Based on that unscientific claim, he defended
the destruction of abnormal newborn infants and suggested that this
cannot rationally be classed as murder. As we have seen, Haeckel
openly defended murder, and encouraged those around him to murder.
Haeckel was sufficiently heartless to support not only voluntary eu-
thanasia, but its compulsory equivalent. He expressed his anger on this
subject in these terms: "hundreds of thousands of incurables – lunatics,

Handicap-
ped or sick-
ly babies are
human be-
ings who
need to be
loved and
protected.

The Social Weapon: Darwinism