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that we can never reach the originals of physical matter; and that in a sense,
everyone is watching the "monitor" in his brain.
Everyone who believes in science, be he an atheist, Buddhist, or of any
other belief, must accept this fact. Even the materialist who denies the existence
of Allah cannot deny scientific reality.
That Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, George Politzer and others were never
able to comprehend such a simple, evident fact is still startling, even though
their level of scientific understanding was primitive and insufficient. Our high-
ly advanced science and technology make it even easier to comprehend this
explicit fact. Materialists, on the other hand, are paralyzed with their fears of
even partially comprehending this fact and thereby, realizing how completely
it demolishes their philosophy.

The Materialists' Great Fear
For a while, Turkish materialist circles mounted no substantial backlash
against the subject examined in this book-that matter is perceived in the brain.
This gave us the impression that we hadn't made our point clearly enough, that
it needed further explanation. Yet before long, it became apparent that materi-
alists did feel quite uneasy about the popularity of this topic and moreover, felt
a great fear about it all.
After a while, materialists started loudly publicizing their fear and panic in
their publications, conferences and panels. Their agitated, hopeless discourse
implied that they were suffering a severe intellectual crisis. The collapse of the
theory of evolution-the basis of their so-called scientific philosophy-had already
come as a great shock. Now they experienced an even greater one, as they
realized that they were losing their belief in the absolute supremacy of matter,
which for them was a greater mainstay than even Darwinism. They declared
that for them, this issue is a tremendous threat that totally demolishes their cul-
tural fabric.
One who expressed the materialist circles' anxiety and panic in a most out-
spoken way was Renan Pekunlu, an academician and writer in the periodical
Bilim ve Utopya (Science and Utopia) which has assumed the task of defend-
ing materialism. Both in his articles in Bilim ve Utopya and in the panels he
attended, Pekunlu presented our book The Evolution Deceit as the number-one

threat. What disturbed Pekunlu even more than the chapters invalidating
Darwinism was the section you are currently reading. Pekunlu admonished his
handful of readers not to let themselves be carried away by the indoctrination
of idealism and to keep their faith in materialism. He used Vladimir I. Lenin,
leader of Russia's bloody communist revolution, as a reference. Advising every-

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