Page 16 - The Struggle Against the Religion of Irreligion

deny the existence of Allah and to distance people from religion and

moral values. Otherwise, they would be deprived of any grounds on

which to defend their irreligion.

Defending a Theory Abandoned by Science

Many scientists of our day clearly admit why they continue to

defend the concepts of evolution and materialism despite more recent

scientific facts. For instance, Phillip Johnson quotes and comments on

statements by Richard Lewontin, a geneticist from Harvard University

and fervent advocator of the evolution theory with blind faith in

materialism:

"The primary problem is not to provide the public with the

knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are

made of... Rather, the problem is to get them to reject irrational

and supernatural explanations of the world..." What the public

needs to learn is that, like it or not, "we exist as material beings

in a material world, all of whose phenomena are the

consequences of material relations among material entities. In a

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