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that, in a sense, everyone is watching the "monitor in his brain".

Everyone who believes in science, be he an atheist, Buddhist, or some-
one who holds any other view, has to accept this fact. A materialist might
deny the existence of a Creator yet he cannot deny this scientific reality.
The inability of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Georges Politzer and oth-
ers to comprehend such a simple and evident fact is still startling, although
the level of scientific understanding of their times was perhaps insufficient.
In our time, science and technology are highly advanced and recent dis-
coveries make it easier to comprehend this fact. Materialists, on the other
hand, are flooded with the fear of both comprehending this fact, even par-
tially, and realising how definitely it demolishes their philosophy.

THE GREAT FEAR OF THE MATERIALISTS
For a while, no substantial response came from materialist Turkish cir-
cles on the subject brought up in this book, that is, the fact that matter is
a mere perception. This gave us the impression that our point had not
been made so clear and that it needed further explanation. Yet, before
long, it was revealed that materialists felt quite uneasy about the popular-
ity of this subject, and felt a great fear of it.
For some time, materialists have been loudly proclaiming their fear and
panic in their publications, conferences and panels. Their agitated and
hopeless discourses imply that they are suffering a severe intellectual cri-
sis. The scientific collapse of the theory of evolution, the so-called basis of

their philosophy, had already come as a great shock to them. Now, they
come to realise that they start to lose matter itself, which is a greater main-
stay for them than Darwinism, and they are experiencing an even greater
shock. They declare that this issue is the "biggest threat" to them and that
it totally "demolishes their cultural fabric".
One of those who expressed most outspokenly the anxiety and panic
felt by materialist circles was Renan Pekunlu, an academician as well as
writer of the Bilim ve Utopya (Science and Utopia) periodical which has
assumed the task of defending materialism. Both in his articles in Bilim ve
Utopya and in the panels he attended, Pekunlu presented the book

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