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BASIC TENETS OF ISLAM

A Materialist Faith

The information we have presented so far shows us that the
theory of evolution is incompatible with scientific findings. The
theory's claim regarding the origin of life is inconsistent with
science, the evolutionary mechanisms it proposes have no
evolutionary power, and fossils demonstrate that the required
intermediate forms have never existed. So, it certainly follows that

the theory of evolution should be pushed aside as an unscientific
idea. This is how many ideas, such as the Earth-centered universe
model, have been taken out of the agenda of science throughout
history.
However, the theory of evolution is kept on the agenda of
science. Some people even try to represent criticisms directed
against it as an "attack on science." Why?
The reason is that this theory is an indispensable dogmatic belief
for some circles. These circles are blindly devoted to materialist
philosophy and adopt Darwinism because it is the only materialist

explanation that can be put forward to explain the workings of
nature.
Interestingly enough, they also confess this fact from time to
time. A well-known geneticist and an outspoken evolutionist,
Richard C. Lewontin from Harvard University, confesses that he is
"first and foremost a materialist and then a scientist":

It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel
us accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the
contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes
to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that

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