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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

credibility factors here is that of age. This alleged superiority is em-
phasized in expressions like, "I was doing that while you were still
wet behind the ears," or "I have witnessed your childhood."
Even if a person realizes that an idea he's proposed is wrong or
that his alleged knowledge of a particular subject is actually limited,
it's very rare for him to admit that. Having one's mistakes or errors
revealed is unacceptable to members of Ignorantism. In any case the
important thing is not to arrive at a conclusion or to determine the
truth and the facts, but generally to satisfy one's own need for pres-
tige.Children brought up in such environments acquire such charac-
teristics from an early age. For example, the offspring of a cultured,
intellectual, wealthy family, but one far removed from Islam, will
generally become the kind of adults who knows it all, undervalue
others, and believe themselves constantly in the right and well-in-
formed on every matter. Unless children who assume the appear-
ance of a know-it-all from an early age are given an Islamic
education, they will maintain such a character at all times.

THE BEHAVIORAL DISORDER OF PEOPLE LIVING
BY THE RELIGION OF THE IGNORANT:
"EGOISM AND SELF-INTEREST"
MR. ADNAN OKTAR'S LIVE INTERVIEW
ON BUYUKHABER (December 12, 2008)
ADNAN OKTAR: Materialist-Darwinist ideology automati-
cally brings with it an egoistical and selfish spirit, that is the philos-
ophy of selfishness. People think, "No matter what happens to
others, let me be safe and secure." Egoism is something horrible. It is
very disturbing. Selfish societies, selfish people. Selfish workgroups
always seek their own interests because they approach matters self-
ishly. Then, of course, they observe no laws and orders. They do not

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