Page 37 - Once Upon a Time There Was Darwinism

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

. . . This common disdain for religion unites Epicureanism
and modernity because we moderns [Darwinists] are the heirs
of Epicurus. Through a long and winding path, a revived form of
Epicurean materialism became the founding creed of modern scien-
tific materialism—the very materialist cosmology that Darwin as-
sumed in the Origin and that still grounds the materialist dismissal
of design in nature. 6
Today, those motivated to stubbornly defend the theory of
evolution are not on the side of science, but on the side of atheism.
Like their precursor Epicurus, their attachment to atheism stems
from the awareness that accepting the existence of God would
clash with their own selfish desires.
There is a verse in the Qur'an in which God completely de-
scribes the situation of non-believers: "And they repudiated them

wrongly and haughtily, in spite of their own certainty about
them." (Surat an-Naml: 14) And in another verse, He reveals,
"Have you seen him who has taken his whims and desires to be
his deity?" (Surat al-Furqan: 43)
The Epicurus-Darwinist "clan" rejects the existence of God
only because His existence conflicts with their personal desires and
passions; in this, they are very much like those described in the
verse above. Therefore, it is very deceptive to regard the evolution-
Creation argument as a conflict between science and religion.

Evolution and Creation, two different explanations of the ori-
gins of life and the universe, have existed from ancient times. In
order to understand which of these explanations is scientifically
correct, we have to consider the discoveries of science. Here,
as in our other books, we will once again see how all
findings prove that the theory of evolution is er-
roneous, and that Creation is true.

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