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The Scientific Death of Materialism

onstituting as it does the philosophical Thus, the materialistic hypothesis that
C underpinnings of the theory of evolu- life can be explained solely in terms of the
tion, 19th-century materialism suggested interactions of matter also collapsed in the
that the universe existed since eternity, that face of the the discoveries of science. In
it was not created, and that the organic particular, the origin of the genetic informa-
world could be explained in terms of the in- tion that determines all living things can by
teractions of matter. The discoveries of no means be explained by any purely mate-
20th-century science however have com- rial agent. One of the leading defenders of
pletely invalidated these hypotheses. the theory of evolution, George C. Williams,
The supposition that the universe has admits this fact in an article he wrote in
existed since eternity was blown away by 1995:
the discovery that the universe originated Evolutionist biologists have failed to re-
from a great explosion (the so-called "Big alize that they work with two more or
Bang") that took place nearly 15 billion less incommensurable domains: that of
years ago. The Big Bang shows that all information and that of matter... the
physical substances in the universe came gene is a package of information, not an
into being out of nothing: in other words, object... This dearth descriptors makes
they were created. One of the foremost ad- matter and information two separate do-
vocates of materialism, the atheist philoso- mains of existence, which have to be
pher Anthony Flew concedes: discussed separately, in their own
Notoriously, confession is good for the terms. 4
soul. I will therefore begin by confess- This situation is evidence for the exis-
ing that the Stratonician atheist has to tence of a supra-material Wisdom that
be embarressed by the contemporary makes genetic information exist. It is im-
cosmological consensus (Big Bang). possible for matter to produce information
For it seems that the cosmologists are within itself. The director of the German
providing a scientific proof ... that the Federal Institute of Physics and Technol-
universe had a beginning. 1 ogy, Proffessor Werner Gitt, remarks:
The Big Bang also shows that at each All experiences indicate that a thinking
stage, the universe was shaped by a con- being voluntarily exercising his own
trolled Creation. This is made clear by the free will, cognition, and creativity, is re-
order that came about after the Big Bang, quired. There is no known law of nature,
which was too perfect to have been formed no known process and no known se-
from an uncontrolled explosion. The fa- quence of events which can cause infor-
mous physician Paul Davies explains this mation to originate by itself in matter. 5
situation:
All these scientific facts illustrate that
It is hard to resist the impression that Allah, Who has external power and knowl-
the present structure of the universe, edge, creates the universe and all living
apparently so sensitive to minor alter- things. As for materialism, Arthur Koestler,
ations in the numbers, has been rather one of the most renowned philosophers of
carefully thought out... The seeming our century says: "It can no longer claim to
miraculous concurrence of numerical be a scientific philosophy" 6
values that nature has assigned to her
fundamental constants must remain the
most compelling evidence for an ele-
ment of cosmic design. 2
The same reality makes an American 1- Henry Margenau, Roy A. Vargesse, Cosmos, Bios, Theos,
professor of astronomy, George Green- La Salle IL: Open Court Publishing, 1992, p. 241
2- Paul Davies, God and the New Physics, New York: Simon
stein, say: & Schuster, 1983, p. 189
3- Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos. Colorado
As we survey all the evidence, the Springs, CO: Nav-Press, 1993, pp. 114-15
thought insistently arises that some su- 4- George C. Williams, The Third Culture: Beyond the
Scientific Revolution, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1995,
pernatural agency -or rather Agency- pp. 42-43
must be involved. 3 5- Werner Gitt, In the Beginning Was Information, CLV,
Bielefeld, Germany, pp. 107, 141
6- Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up, New York, Vintage
Books, 1978, p. 250