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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 reading, which is also available in The
Evolution Deceit. Pekunlu admonished his handful of readers not to
let themselves be carried away by the indoctrination of idealism and
to keep their faith in materialism. He used Vladimir I. Lenin, leader
of Russia's bloody communist revolution, as a reference. Advising
everyone to read Lenin's century-old book Materialism and Empirio-
Criticism, Pekunlu only repeated Lenin's ignorant counsel to "not
think over this issue, or you will lose track of materialism and be car-
ried away by religion." In an article for the aforementioned periodi-
cal, Pekunlu quoted the following lines from Lenin:
Once you deny the objective reality [that is] given us in sensation, you
have already lost every weapon against fideism [reliance on faith
alone], for you have slipped into agnosticism or subjectivism—and
that is all that fideism requires. A single claw ensnared, and the
bird is lost. And our Machists [an adherent of Machism, a modern
positivist philosophy], 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
"element." It is nobody's sensation, nobody's mind, nobody's spirit,
nobody's will. 11
These words explicitly demonstrate how the reality that Lenin
found alarming and wanted to expunge, both from his own mind
and the minds of his "comrades" disturbs contemporary materialists
too, in a similar way. But Pekunlu and other materialists suffer a yet
greater distress because they know that this certain fact is now being
advanced in a way that's far more explicit convincing than a hun-