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will be called to account for their actions in this world. That evolu-

tionists try with all their power to forget this fact, and to cause others
to deny it, changes nothing. So long as they refuse to abandon these
errors in this world, denying God and the Day of Judgment and main-
taining that man is a purposeless entity, when the Day of Judgment
actually comes, the regret they experience will be very great. Our
Lord has revealed this in the Qur'an:

If only you could see when they are standing before the Fire and say-
ing, "Oh! If only we could be sent back again, we would not deny the
signs of our Lord and we would be among the believers." (Surat al-
An'am, 27)

Suggesting that there is no purpose behind their lives leads peo-
ple to suffer a feeling of emptiness and terrible depression. Those who
believe that falsehood see life as meaningless and unnecessary, and
this in turn leads to a spiritual collapse. The irrational, illogical claims
of Richard Dawkins, one of today's most prominent proponents of the

theory of evolution, are typical of the materialist view. Dawkins main-
tains that human beings are all mere "gene machines," and that the
only reason for existence is to pass their genes on to subsequent gen-