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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

what it means to be a human being. I don’t think we’ve arrived at
that point yet. I don’t think we’re quite awake yet. I think we are all
still asleep—dreaming, hoping, wishing—mechanically relying on
our intellect to lead us out of the morass in which we constantly find
ourselves. When we can use our heart and our spirit as well as our
brain, that’s when science will begin to adapt to a new world order. 110
Wolf is emphasizing that science is simply a vehicle for under-
standing the creation that pervades the universe. That sublime cre-
ation belongs to Allah alone. Allah, the Lord of all, is the only ab-
solute Entity. Human beings can see what He has created by using
their brains, and science can discover them and understand the art-
istry and sublimity in them. Science is only a means of reaching
Allah’s works and seeing the details in them.
Another writer to have realized this is Craig Hamilton, editor
of the journal What Is Enlightenment?:

But as years passed, and my inbred agnosticism gradually gave way
to a committed spiritual quest, I soon began to have experiences of a
deeper reality, far beyond anything described in my science text-
books. In the face of this unfolding world of meaning, purpose, and
mystery, the notion that science held the keys to ultimate truth began
to seem increasingly hard to accept . . . .

Yet when I see evolutionary biologists using the unproven dogmas
of neo-Darwinian theory to convince our kids that they live in a pur-
poseless universe, my sympathies toward science start to fade once
again. 111

It is important that materialist scientists should be aware of
this fact, because the question “Who is it who perceives?” has only
one answer, and that answer is no longer a physical one. It is the
soul bestowed on man by Allah that perceives. So long as peo-
ple fail to realize this or behave as if they did not, none of their
statements or descriptions regarding consciousness are of any
consequence. The evidence so clearly revealed by quan-

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