Page 19 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

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Materialism: The Superstition of an Age
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Ancient Greek thinkers imagined that all bodies consisted of
tiny particles called atoms. They maintained that these atoms
shaped the universe and all living things, without intention or di-
rection and without being subjected to any conscious intervention.
According to this belief, matter was timeless and eternal, and noth-
ing beyond matter could exist. Supernatural events that intervened
in entities’ behavior and altered their structures was sheer super-
stition, unacceptable. All axioms and principles were based on the
assumption that matter was an absolute reality.
Since matter was eternal, the universe must be eternal as well,
and that idea served as the foundation of atheism. If the entire uni-
verse had existed for all time, then according to the perversion of
materialist belief, it was impossible for matter and the universe to
ever have been created.
According to materialists, the universe was eternal, and there-
fore, there was no purpose or special creation in it. Materialists
imagined that all the balances, equilibrium, harmony and order in
the universe were solely the results of chance. They claimed that
everything came into being as the result of unconscious atoms as-
sembling at random. And no matter how much complexity, balance
and magnificent regularity exhibited by the external world, these
were still the result of purposeless coincidences.
Materialist minds had held this preconception or idée fixe ever
since the days of Ancient Greece. Since materialism rejected the
concepts of “purpose” and “creation” to the universe, it also de-
nied the existence of a Creator. To be strictly accurate, materialism
was a philosphy which had been formulated to reject Allah.
Many movements, ideologies and intellectual sys-
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