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INTRODUCTION

WHY THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION?

or some people the theory of evolution or Darwinism has only scientific connotations, with seemingly
no direct implication in their daily lives. This is, of course, a common misunderstanding. Far beyond

F just being an issue within the framework of the biological sciences, the theory of evolution constitutes
the underpinning of a deceptive philosophy that has held sway over a large number of people: Materialism.
Materialist philosophy, which accepts only the existence of matter and presupposes man to be 'a heap of
matter', asserts that he is no more than an animal, with 'conflict' the sole rule of his existence. Although prop-

agated as a modern philosophy based on science, materialism is in fact an ancient dogma with no scientific
basis. Conceived in Ancient Greece, the dogma was rediscovered by the atheistic philosophers of the 18th
century. It was then implanted in the 19th century into several science disciplines by thinkers such as Karl
Marx, Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud. In other words science was distorted to make room for material-

ism.
The past two centuries have been a bloody arena of materialism: Ideologies based on materialism (or
competing ideologies arguing against materialism, yet sharing its basic tenets) have brought permanent vio-
lence, war and chaos to the world. Communism, responsible for the death of 120 million people, is the direct

outcome of materialistic philosophy. Fascism, despite pretending to be an alternative to the materialistic
world-view, accepted the fundamental materialist concept of progress though conflict and sparked off op-
pressive regimes, massacres, world wars and genocide.
Besides these two bloody ideologies, individual and social ethics have also been corrupted by material-

ism.
The deceptive message of materialism, reducing man to an animal
whose existence is coincidental and with no responsibility to any being,
demolished moral pillars such

as love, mercy, self-sacrifice,
Karl Marx made it clear that
modesty, honesty and justice. Darwin's theory provided
Having been misled by the ma- a solid ground for materi-
alism and thus also for
terialists' motto "life is a strug-
communism. He also
gle", people came to see their showed his sympathy
lives as nothing more than a to Darwin by dedicating
Das Kapital, which is
clash of interests which, in turn,
considered as his
led to life according to the law of greatest work, to him.

the jungle. In the German edi-
tion of the book,
Traces of this philosophy, he wrote: "From a
which has a lot to answer as re- devoted admirer to
Charles Darwin"
gards man-made disasters of the
last two centuries, can be found

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