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THE QUR'AN LEADS THE W A Y TO SCIENCE

astronomy to biology and paleontology, were great men of science who
believed in God, and who conducted research for the sake of exploring
what He created.
Einstein also maintained that scientists must rely on religious sources
when developing their objectives:
Though religion may be that which determines the goal, it has,
nevertheless, learned from science, in the broadest sense, what means
will contribute to the attainment of the goals it has set up. But science
can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the
aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling,
however, springs from the sphere of religion… I cannot conceive of a
genuine scientist without that profound faith. 11
Since the middle of the 19th century, however, the scientific
community has divorced itself from this divine source, and
come under the influence of a materialist philosophy.
Materialism, an idea that dates back to ancient
Greece, maintains the absolute existence of
matter and denies God. This materialistic

outlook gradually
made its way into the
scientific community, and,
beginning in the middle of the 19th century, a considerable portion of
scientific investigation was initiated to support it. To this purpose, many
theories were formulated, such as the "infinite universe model"
suggesting that the universe exists since infinite time, Darwin's
evolutionary theory claiming that life is the work of chance, or Freud's
views holding that the human mind consists of the brain alone.
Today, in retrospect, we see that the claims put forth by materialism
were but a waste of time for science. For decades, a great number of
scientists have expended their best efforts to prove each of these claims,

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