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that they created the universe and exercise control over it, so they

bowed before them and called on them for health, sustenance and

blessings. In light of these facts, it is obvious that people in our day

hold the same idolatrous rationale as did idolaters of the past who

worshipped lifeless statues. Materialists and evolutionists believe that

inanimate substances formed of unconscious atoms possess power.

They claim that as a result of chance, lifeless matter organized itself to

create complete and complex living beings.

Furthermore, they attribute all occurrences in the universe to

lifeless and unconscious atoms in nature. For example, materialists

and evolutionists imply that a tornado or an earthquake (which they

call "the wrath of mother nature" or "a calamity of nature") occurs at

the discretion of "nature." However, they fail to explain what this

force called "nature" is or from where it springs. The elements they

call "mother nature" or "nature" are actually no different from deities

of past idolatrous societies called "earth mother" or "fertility goddess."

Only their symbols have been removed; divinity is now attributed to

invisible, inanimate matter and to coincidence, which are believed to

possess the power of creation.

Pierre Paul Grassé, a French zoologist and fervent evolutionist,

explains the hidden gods of evolutionists and materialists as follows:

21 Surah al-Anbiya’, 21:52-54.

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