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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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who started to impose it on European societies. Propaganda insisted
that materialism was the foundation of reason and science—a deception
that quickly spread among the enlightened, moving first from France to
Germany and then, gradually, throughout the rest of Europe. In this re-
spect, Freemasonry was an important ally. Masons adopted materialism
as a religion and, in the 19th century, many enlightened Europeans be-
came its members.
As this ancient dogma spread, there were attempts to adapt material-
ism to several branches of science:
1 1. To natural science, by the English naturalist Charles Darwin.
2. To social science, by the German philosophers Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels.
Darwin's adaptation is called the theory of evolution, while Marx and
Engel's is known as Communism.

Marx and Darwin

It's possible to say that Darwin's theory includes that of Marx and
Engels, because Communism is also a theory of "evolution" adapted to
history and sociology. Anton Pannekoek, a renowned Darwinist-
Marxist thinker, sums this up in his book Marxism and Darwinism pub-
lished at the beginning of the 20th century:
The scientific importance of Marxism as well as of Darwinism consists in
their following out the theory of evolution, the one upon the domain of the
organic world, of things animate; the other, upon the domain of society…
Thus, both teachings, the teachings of Darwin and of Marx, the one in the
domain of the organic world and the other upon the field of human soci-
ety, raised the theory of evolution to a positive science. In doing this they
made the theory of evolution acceptable to the masses as the basic concep-
tion of social and biological development. 1

Darwinism and Marxism are fully compatible in two basic argu-
ments:

1. Darwinism proposed that all existing things consist of "matter in mo-
tion." This alleges that God neither created nor ordered matter and that
therefore, all life arose by chance. Human beings are a species of animal,
evolved from other, lesser animals. But these claims rest on no scientific
proof and have been proven false be subsequent scientific discoveries. But