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Religion and Science are Always in Agreement

above all else, and then look for evidence to support their ideology. That
is to say, materialism is not a conclusion materialists have arrived at
through scientific research, but a prejudice they impose upon science.
The same idea is embodied in the words of another evolutionist as well.
In his book, titled Origins: A Skeptic's Guide to Creation of Life on Earth, the
renowned evolutionist Robert Shapiro states his commitment to the
theory of evolution as such:
Some future day may yet arrive when all reasonable chemical
experiments run to discover a probable origin for life have failed
unequivocally. Further, new geological evidence may indicate a sudden
appearance of life on the earth. Finally, we may have explored the
universe and found no trace of life, or process leading to life, elsewhere.
In such a case, some scientists might choose to turn to religion for an
answer. Others, however, myself included, would attempt to sort out
the surviving less probable scientific explanations in the hope of
selecting one that was still more likely than the remainder. 52

Here, what Shapiro means when he says "scientific explanations" is
actually "materialist explanations". This blind devotion to materialism has
led Shapiro, and thousands of others like him, to subscribe to a fanatical
disbelief. What they are actually saying is, "no matter what evidence is
presented, we will not believe in God".
Most interestingly, this obsession is not peculiar to
the current materialists alone. In the Qur'an,
God reveals important knowledge about these
people who have resolved to remain
disbelievers. For instance, the Egyptians, who
said, "no matter what kind of Sign you bring
to bewitch us, we will not believe in you"
(Surat al-A‘raf: 132) to the Prophet Moses,
who showed them a number of miracles,
had the same predisposition as the
materialists of today. God refers to
these people in this way:
Some of them listen to you but
We have placed covers on their
hearts, preventing them from Robert Shapiro

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