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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

ith what we have already described, the fact we nev-
er have direct experience of the original of a "3-di-
mensional space" and that we spend all our lives in a
space in our minds becomes crystal clear. Asserting
the contrary would be to profess a superstitious belief removed
from reason and scientific truth, for it is not possible to have direct
contact with the original of the external world.
This refutes the primary assumption of the materialist philoso-
phy underlying evolutionary theory—the assumption that matter is
absolute and eternal. The materialistic philosophy's second assump-
tion is that time is also absolute and eternal—a supposition just as
superstitious as the first.

The Perception of Time

What we call "time" is in fact a method by which one moment is
compared to another. For example, when a person taps an object, he
hears a particular sound. If he taps the same object again, he hears
another sound. Thinking there is an interval between the two
sounds, he calls this interval "time." Yet when he hears the second
sound, the first one he heard is no more than a memory in his mind,
merely a bit of information in his imagination. A person formulates
his perception of time by comparing the moment in which he lives
with what he holds in memory. If he doesn't make this comparison,
he can have no perception of time either.
Similarly, a person makes a comparison when he sees someone
enter through a door and sit in an armchair in the middle of the
room. By the time this person sits in the armchair, the images of the
moment he opened the door and made his way to the armchair are
compiled as bits of information in memory. The perception of time
takes place when one compares the man sitting on the armchair
with those bits of recalled information.
Briefly, time comes about as a result of comparisons of information
stored in the brain. If man had no memory, his brain could not make

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