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entific fact. How images and feelings form in the brain is taught in detail in
all medical schools. These facts, proven by 20th-century science, and partic-
ularly by physics, clearly show that matter does not have an absolute reality
and that everyone in a sense is watching the "monitor in his brain".
Everyone who believes in science, be he an atheist, Buddhist, or of any
other persuasion, has to accept this fact. A materialist might deny the exis-
tence of a Creator in his own limited understanding, yet he cannot deny this
scientific reality.
The inability of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Georges Politzer and oth-
ers to comprehend such a simple and evident fact still seems startling, even
although the level of scientific understanding and range of possibilities of
their times were less than adequate. In our time, science and technology are
highly advanced and recent discoveries make it easier to comprehend this
fact. Materialists, on the other hand, are stricken with the fear of both com-
prehending this fact, albeit partially, and realising how definitively it
demolishes their philosophy.

The Great Fear of the Materialists
For quite some time now, materialists have been loudly giving vent to
their fear and panic in their publications, conferences and panel discussions.
Their agitated and hopeless discourses imply that they are suffering from a
severe intellectual crisis. The scientific collapse of the theory of evolution, the
so-called basis of their philosophy, had already come as a great shock to
them. Now, they have come to realise that they are starting to lose matter
itself, which is a greater mainstay for them than Darwinism, and the shock
they experience as a result is even greater. They declare that this issue is the
"biggest threat" for them, and that it totally "demolishes their cultural fabric".
One of those who expressed in the most outspoken way this anxiety
and panic felt by materialist circles was Renan Pekunlu, an academician as
well as contributor to Bilim ve Utopya (Science and Utopia), a periodical
which has assumed the task of defending materialism. Both in his articles in
Bilim ve Utopya and in the panel discussions he has attended, Pekunlu pre-
sented the book The Evolution Deceit, the first book in which this subject was
brought up, as the number one "threat" to materialism. What disturbed
Pekunlu even more than the chapters that invalidated Darwinism was the
part you are currently reading. To his readers and (only a handful of) audi-