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on Almighty Allah, and fear and seek refuge in Him, for He squeezes
the entire universe in a pitch-dark place of a few cubic centimeters in
a three-dimensional, colored, shadowy, and luminous form.

AMaterialist Faith
The information we have presented so far shows us that the the-
ory of evolution is a incompatible with scientific findings. The the-

ory's claim regarding the origin of life is inconsistent with science, the
evolutionary mechanisms it proposes have no evolutionary power,
and fossils demonstrate that the required intermediate forms have
never existed. So, it certainly follows that the theory of evolution
should be pushed aside as an unscientific idea. This is how many
ideas, such as the Earth-centered universe model, have been taken
out of the agenda of science throughout history.
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 phi-
losophy and adopt Darwinism because it is the only materialist ex-
planation that can be put forward to explain the workings of nature.
Interestingly enough, they also confess this fact from time to time.
Awell-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 ad-

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