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THE QUR'AN LEADS THE W A Y TO SCIENCE

factors, and that this design could only have been brought into being
through supra-material Wisdom. In other words, the material world
teems with evident signs of God's creative power and authority.

Materialists' Bigoted and Dogmatic Approach

One who subscribes to a certain view is free to test whether that view
can be verified by scientific facts, and to perform scientific research for
that purpose. A person, for instance, can proclaim that the world is flat,
and conduct research to support his assertion. The important matter is
how this person assesses the scientific data he accumulates. A scientist
evaluating scientific results objectively will be unable to find any
evidence proving that the earth is flat, on the contrary, he will encounter
much evidence that the earth is elliptical. In this case, what this person
must do is to admit the truth without prejudice, and give up his earlier
beliefs.
The same holds true for materialism. Science has proven that matter is
not an absolute being, but that it had a beginning. Moreover, it has shown
that there is a mind-boggling design in nature. Therefore, materialist
scientists studying matter have seen that their theory is inapplicable, and
that the truth is actually the very opposite of their claim.
Interestingly, however, such persons entertain a blind devotion to

materialism, exhibiting an astonishing tenacity in holding on to their
"belief". A Harvard geneticist, Richard Lewontin, a well known
materialist and evolutionist, excuses his dogmatic materialism in these
words:
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel
us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on
the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material
causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that
produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no
matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is
absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. 51
Here Lewontin actually depicts the mindset of all materialists. As he
acknowledges, materialists first subscribe to the materialist ideology

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