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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

The Creator is different from—and superior to—all that we see, a
Superior Power Who is invisible to our eyes, but Whose existence

and attributes are revealed in everything that He creates.
This is where those who deny Allah's existence are led astray.
They are conditioned not to believe in Allah's existence unless they
see Him with their own eyes, forced to conceal the actuality of Cre-
ation manifested all throughout the universe, and to claim that the
universe and all the living things it contains have not been created.
In order to do so, they resort to falsehoods. Evolutionary theory is
one key example of their lies and vain endeavors to this end.
The basic mistake of those who deny Allah is shared by many
others who don't actually deny His existence, but have wrong per-
ceptions of Him. These people, constituting the majority of society
in some countries, do not deny Creation openly, but have supersti-
tious beliefs about Allah, most believing that He is only "up in the
sky." They tacitly and falsely imagine that Allah is off behind some
very distant planet and only occasionally interferes with worldly af-
fairs. Or perhaps He doesn't intervene at all: He created the uni-
verse, and then left it to itself, leaving humans to determine their
fates for themselves. (Surely Allah is beyond that.)
Still others are aware of the fact that Allah is "everywhere," as re-
vealed in the Qur'an, but cannot fully understand what this means.
Superstitiously, they think that Allah surrounds all matter like radio
waves or like an invisible, intangible gas. (Allah is certainly beyond
that.)

However, this and other notions that cannot clarify "where"
Allah is (and unwisely deny His apparent existence perhaps be-
cause of this) are all based on a common mistake: They hold a
groundless prejudice that moves them to wrong opinions about
Allah.
What is this prejudice? It concerns the existence and nature of
matter. Some people have been so conditioned to the mistaken ideas

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