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Harun Yahya

CHAPTER 13

THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION: A MATERIALISTIC LIABILITY

he information we have considered throughout this book has shown us that the theory of evolution

has no scientific basis, and that, on the contrary, evolutionist claims conflict with scientific facts. In
T other words, the force that keeps evolution alive is not science. The theory of evolution is main-
tained by some "scientists", but behind it there is another influence at work.

This other influence is materialist philosophy.
Materialist philosophy is one of the oldest beliefs in the world, and assumes the existence of matter as its
basic principle. According to this view, matter has always existed, and everything that exists consists of mat-
ter. This makes belief in a Creator impossible, of course, because if matter has always existed, and if every-
thing consists of matter, then there can be no suprematerial Creator who created it. Materialism has therefore

long been hostile to religious beliefs of every kind that have faith in God.
So the question becomes one of whether the materialist point of view is correct. One method of testing
whether a philosophy is true or false is to investigate the claims it makes about science by using scientific

methods. For instance, a philosopher in the 10th century could have claimed that there was a divine tree on
the surface of the moon and that all living things actually grew on the branches of this huge tree like fruit,
and then fell off onto the earth. Some people might have found this philosophy attractive and believed in it.
But in the 20th century, at a time when man has managed to walk on the moon, it is no longer possible to se-
riously hold such a belief. Whether such a tree exists there or not can be determined by scientific methods,

that is, by observation and experiment.
We can therefore investigate by means of scientific methods the materialist claim: that matter has existed
for all eternity and that this matter can organise itself without a supramaterial Creator and cause life to begin.

When we do this, we see that materialism has already collapsed, because the idea that matter has existed since
beginning of time has been overthrown by the Big Bang theory which shows that the universe was created
from nothingness. The claim that matter organised itself and created life is the claim that we call "the theory
of evolution" -which this book has been examining-and which has been shown to have collapsed.
However, if someone is determined to believe in materialism and puts his devotion to materialist phi-

losophy before everything else, then he will act differently. If he is a materialist first and a scientist second, he
will not abandon materialism when he sees that evolution is disproved by science. On the contrary, he will
attempt to uphold and defend materialism by trying to support evolution, no matter what. This is exactly

the predicament that evolutionists defending the theory of evolution find themselves in today.
Interestingly enough, they also confess this fact from time to time. A well-known geneticist and outspo-
ken evolutionist, Richard C. Lewontin from Harvard University, confesses that he is "a materialist first and a
scientist second" in these words:

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