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JUSTICE AND COMPASSION IN THE QUR'AN

However, the theory of evolution is kept on the agenda of
science. Some people even try to represent criticisms directed
against it as an "attack on science." Why?
The reason is that this theory is an indispensable dogmatic
belief for some circles. These circles are blindly devoted to
materialist philosophy and adopt Darwinism because it is the
only materialist explanation that can be put forward to explain
the workings of nature.

Interestingly enough, they also confess this fact from time
to time. A well-known geneticist and an outspoken
evolutionist, Richard C. Lewontin from Harvard University,
confesses that he is "first and foremost a materialist and then a
scientist":
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow
compel us accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world,
but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to
material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of
concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how
counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated.
Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a
Divine [intervention]... 70

These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma
kept alive just for the sake of adherence to materialism. This
dogma maintains that there is no being save matter. Therefore,
it argues that inanimate, unconscious matter brought life into
being. It insists that millions of different living species (e.g.,
birds, fish, giraffes, tigers, insects, trees, flowers, whales, and
human beings) originated as a result of the interactions
between matter such as pouring rain, lightning flashes, and so
on, out of inanimate matter. This is a precept contrary both to