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THE GOLDEN AGE

Someone who looks at a seal perceives it in his brain. Similarly, it is in his brain
that he investigates and examines the features of that creature he sees in his
brain. The things he learns reveal to him the prefection of Allah's creation and
the superiority of His wisdom and knowledge.

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 ac-
cept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary,
that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an

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