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The Materialists' Great Fear

For a while, Turkish materialist circles mounted no substantial backlash
against the subject examined in this book - that matter is perceived in the
brain. This gave us the impression that we hadn't made our point clearly
enough, that it needed further explanation. Yet before long, it became
apparent that materialists did feel quite uneasy about the popularity of this
topic and moreover, felt a great fear about it all.
After a while, materialists started loudly publicizing their fear and panic
in their publications, conferences and panels. Their agitated, hopeless dis-
course implied that they were suffering a severe intellectual crisis. The col-
lapse of the theory of evolution - the basis of their so-called scientific phi-
losophy - had already come as a great shock. Now they experienced an
even greater one, as they realized that they were losing their belief in the
absolute supremacy of matter, which for them was a greater mainstay than
even Darwinism. They declared that for them, this issue is a tremendous
threat that totally demolishes their cultural fabric.
One who expressed the materialist circles' anxiety and panic in a most
outspoken way was Renan Pekunlu, an academi-
cian and writer in the periodical Bilim ve Utopya
(Science and Utopia) which has assumed the task
of defending materialism. Both in his articles in
Bilim ve Utopya and in the panels he attended,
Pekunlu presented our book The Evolution Deceit
as the number-one threat. What disturbed
Pekunlu even more than the chapters invalidating
Darwinism was the section you are currently
Turkish materialist writer
reading. Pekunlu admonished his handful of Rennan Pekunlu says
readers not to let themselves be carried away by that "the theory of evolu-
tion is not so important,
the indoctrination of idealism and to keep their
the real threat is this
faith in materialism. He used Vladimir I. Lenin, subject", because he is
aware that this subject
leader of Russia's bloody communist revolution,
proves that we cannot
as a reference. Advising everyone to read Lenin's reach the original matter,
the only concept in
century-old book Materialism and Empirio-
which he has faith.

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