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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

The fact is, however, that Allah created man. And man is
not an entity devoid of purpose and responsibility. Contrary to
what materialists claim, man is not an unthinking machine. Man is
an entity with a responsibility to Allah and will be held to account
for all his deeds in the Hereafter.
The materialist logic that seeks to divert people away from
this fact has been evident at all times throughout history, ever since
the days of Ancient Greece. Yet it was only in the 19th century that
this belief spread and became established as a settled intellectual
system. In the 19th century, the great majority of classical physicists
thought that the fundamental components of matter were inani-
mate and indivisible atoms, just like tiny billiard balls, and that the
perfect regularity and complexity in the universe were the result of
the random motion and compounds of these atoms. In their view,
everything on Earth, life included, came into being by accident
through a series of blind, unconscious processes. Atoms estab-
lished unreasoning unions and gave rise to the world we see with
all its perfect features—and also to ourselves, with our minds
and consciousness.
By setting out these claims, materialists sought to in-
doctrinate people with the idea that man was not made by a
Creator and that apart from matter, nothing existed. The fact is,

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