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Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) in the Qur’an, the Torah,
the Psalms and the Gospel

A Materialist Faith
The information we have presented so far shows us that
the theory of evolution is incompatible with scientific find-
ings. The theory's claim regarding the origin of life is incon-
sistent with science, the evolutionary mechanisms it proposes
have no evolutionary power, and fossils demonstrate that the
required intermediate forms have never existed. So, it cer-
tainly 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 di-
rected against it as an "attack on science." Why?
The reason is that this theory is an indispensable dog-
matic 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 ex-
plain the workings of nature.
Interestingly enough, they also confess this fact from
time to time. A well-known geneticist and an outspoken evo-
lutionist, Richard C. Lewontin from Harvard University, con-
fesses 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 produce material explanations, no matter how
counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the unini-

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