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disbelievers of our time are determined not to abandon their "religion"
because their ancestors, Darwin, Lenin, Stalin and Mao, had put their
faith in it and worshipped its gods. Their ancestors believed that life
came into existence from lifeless matter, that living beings evolved
from one another as a result of mutations, and that there is no Creator
who created everything from nothing. The advocates of this concept
held nothing but superstitious beliefs: that coincidence and nature
were the creators, that these two powers (having neither
consciousness nor wisdom) could make intelligent selections, and that
only matter is absolute and eternal.
Today, many people who still have faith in "the religion of their
fathers" blindly believe these fallacies which have now been repeatedly
disproved by science. Furthermore, without any understanding of the
actual meaning of their claims, they are fervently defending them in
magazines, newspapers and conferences simply because that is what
they inherited from their ancestors. Allah draws attention to the fact
that disbelief is passed down from one generation to another:
Similarly, there came not to those before them any
messenger except that they said, “A magician or a
51 Surah al-Baqarah, 2:170-171.
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