Page 21 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Throughout the course of history, materialists claimed that enti-
ties consisted merely of assemblages of atoms, and that the hu-
man brain was nothing more than a network of neurons. They
were unable to account for the human mind, and attempted to ex-
plain it as the electro-chemical interaction between its neurons.
Materialists had no qualms about describing themselves as
animals or machines. They denied that they had the status of enti-
ties with consciousness and claimed that they had come into exis-
tence by chance. Yet this was a grave misconception and a lie fab-
ricated in order to deny Allah.
In the words of the quantum particle physicist Stephen M.
Barr, of the Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware,
these people who believed in the absolute reality of matter were al-
most no different from the pagans of the past. Just like the ancient
pagans, materialists describe humans as essentially sub-human.
Pagans deified matter; materialists did the same thing by denying
the soul and reducing everything to the level of matter. Pagans de-
clared that events were determined by the orbits of the planets and
the stars; materialists claimed that they were controlled by the ebb
and flow of the hormones in their brains. Pagans prostrated them-
selves to worship in front of false animal deities; materialists
claimed that they were no more than animals themselves. 2
Amit Goswami, a professor of physics at the University of
Oregon’s Institute for Theoretical Science, describes the fundamen-
tal logic with which materialists sought to indoctrinate people:

We are conditioned to believe that we are
machines—that all our actions are deter-
mined by the stimuli we receive and by
our prior conditioning. As exiles, we have
no responsibility, no choice; our free will is
a mirage. 3
Amit Goswami

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