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have swept the world in the past eighty years would have been
impossible without its intellectual sanction. It is ironic to recall
that it was the increasingly secular outlook in the nineteenth cen-
tury which initially eased the way for the acceptance of evolution,
while today it is perhaps the Darwinian view of nature more than
any other that is responsible for the agnostic and skeptical out-
look of the twentieth century. What was once a deduction from
materialism has today become its foundation. 160

At this point it will be appropriate to examine the
Darwinist claims that prepared the foundation for this moral
collapse and degeneration.

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One of the main reasons why materialist circles support
Darwinism with such intense determination is its atheistic as-
pect.
Atheism has existed since very ancient times, but with
Darwinism, atheists imagined that they had finally found an an-
swer to the question of how living things (and human beings)
came to exist, which for centuries they had been unable to an-
swer. They suggested that natural order and equilibrium had
arisen as the result of coincidences, and that there was no pur-
pose in the universe. However, every one of these views col-
lapsed in the face of scientific, political and social advances
made in the 20th century. Discoveries and analyses in a great
many disciplines, from astronomy to biology, from psychology
to social ethics, totally uprooted the theses of evolution and the
assumptions of atheism.
Many evolutionists and materialists admit that Darwinism
inevitably ends in atheism. Thomas Huxley was the first to state
this openly, saying that when the theory of evolution was fully
accepted, it would be impossible to believe in religion.
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