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Harun Yahya

CHAPTER 17

THE SECRET BEYOND MATTER

hose who contemplate their surroundings conscientiously and wisely realize that everything in the

universe—both living and non-living—must have been created. So the question becomes, "Who is
T the Creator of all these things?"
It is evident that the creation that reveals itself in every aspect of the universe cannot be an outgrowth of

the universe itself. For example, no insect could have created itself, nor could the solar system have created
or organized itself. Neither could plants, humans, bacteria, red-blood cells, nor butterflies have created
themselves. As this book explains throughout, any possibility that all these could have originated "by
chance" is unimaginable.
Therefore, we arrive at the following conclusion: Everything that we see has been created, but nothing

we see can itself be a "creator." The Creator is different from—and superior to—all that we see, a Superior
Power Who is invisible to our eyes, but Whose existence and attributes are revealed in everything that He
creates.

This is where those who deny God's existence are led astray. They are conditioned not to believe in God's
existence unless they see Him with their own eyes, forced to conceal the actuality of creation manifested all
throughout the universe, and to claim that the universe and all the living things it contains have not been
created. In order to do so, they resort to falsehoods. As explained earlier, evolutionary theory is one key ex-
ample of their lies and vain endeavours to this end.

The basic mistake of those who deny God is shared by many others who don't actually deny His exis-
tence, but have wrong perceptions of Him. These people, constituting the majority of society, do not deny
creation, but have superstitious beliefs about God, most believing that God is only "up in the sky." They tac-

itly and falsely imagine that God is off behind some very distant planet and only occasionally interferes with
worldly affairs. Or perhaps He doesn't intervene at all: He created the universe, and then left it to itself, leav-
ing us humans to determine our fates for ourselves.
Still others have heard the fact that God is "everywhere," as revealed in the Qur'an, but cannot under-
stand exactly what this means. Superstitiously, they think that God surrounds all matter like radio waves or

like an invisible, intangible gas. (God is certainly beyond that.)
However, this and other notions that cannot clarify "where" God is (and perhaps deny Him accordingly)
are all based on a common mistake: They hold a groundless prejudice that moves them to wrong opinions

about God.
What is this prejudice? It concerns the existence and nature of matter. Most people have been condi-
tioned to assume that the material universe we see is itself the true reality. Modern science, however, demol-
ishes this position and discloses a very important and imposing truth. In the following pages, we will
explain this great reality to which the Qur'an points.

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