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Evolution Deceit by Harun Yahya as the number one "threat" to material-
ism. What disturbed Pekunlu even more than the chapters that invalidated
Darwinism was the part you are currently reading. To his readers and audi-
ence, the latter of whom were only a handful, Pekunlu delivered the mes-
sage, "do not let yourselves be carried away by the indoctrination of ide-
alism and keep your faith in materialism". He quoted Vladimir I. Lenin, the
leader of the bloody communist revolution in Russia, as reference.
Advising everyone to read Lenin's century-old book titled Materialism and
Empirio-Criticism, Pekunlu repeated the counsels of Lenin, "do not think
over this issue, or you will lose track of materialism and be carried away
by religion". In an article he wrote in the aforementioned periodical, he
quoted the following lines from Lenin:

Once you deny objective reality, given us in sensation, you have already lost
every weapon against fideism, for you have slipped into agnosticism or sub-
jectivism – and that is all that fideism requires. A single claw ensnared, and
the bird is lost. And our Machists have all become ensnared in idealism, that
is, in a diluted, subtle fideism; they became ensnared from the moment they
took "sensation" not as an image of the external world but as a special "ele-
ment". It is nobody's sensation, nobody's mind, nobody's spirit, nobody's
will. 38
These words clearly demonstrate that the fact
which Lenin, in alarm, realised and wanted to
take out both of his mind and the minds of his
"comrades", also disturbs contemporary material-
ists in a similar way. However, Pekunlu and other
materialists suffer a yet greater distress; because
they are aware that this fact is now being put for-
ward in a far more explicit, certain and convinc-
Turkish materialist writer
ing way than 100 years ago. It is for the first time
Rennan Pekunlu says that
in world history that this subject is being "the theory of evolution is
explained in such an irresistible way. not so important, the real
threat is this subject",
Nevertheless, the general picture is that a great
because he is aware that
number of materialist scientists still take a very this subject nullifies mat-
superficial stand against the fact that "matter is ter, the only concept in
which he has faith.

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