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understanding and potentialities. These he owes to no one but

himself, and it is to himself that he is responsible. 2

Any person of sound mind and conscience can see, without

difficulty, the senseless reasoning inherent in the statements above.

The author of these statements, a scientist with a material outlook on

life, attributes man's existence to his own success. However, it is

obvious that at no stage of this process did man exercise his own

faculty of decision-making or authority. It was Allah who created man

on earth in perfect form, but the passion for being "accountable to no

one" led materialists to expect that unconscious and mindless matter

could form conscious and intelligent beings.

It should be remembered that the longing of disbelievers for

freedom from accountability is not peculiar to materialists and

evolutionists of the 19th and 20th centuries. In the Qur’an, Allah

informs us about the existence of previous peoples who shared the

same mind-set:

“Does man think that he will be left neglected? Had he not

been a sperm from semen emitted? Then he was a

clinging clot, and [Allah] created [his form] and

proportioned [him] and made of him two mates, the male

2 Life of the Past: An Introduction to Paleontology, p. 155.

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