Page 43 - The Evolution Deceit

CHAP TER 2

A Brief His to ry

of the The o ry

he roots of evolutionist thought go back as far as antiquity as a
dogmatic belief attempting to deny the fact of creation. Most of the
T pagan philosophers in ancient Greece defended the idea of evolu-
tion. When we take a look at the history of philosophy we see that the idea
of evolution constitutes the backbone of many pagan philosophies.
However, it is not this ancient pagan philosophy, but faith in Allah
which has played a stimulating role in the birth and development of mod-
ern science. Most of the people who pioneered modern science believed in
the existence of Allah; and while studying science, they sought to discover
the universe Allah has created and to perceive His laws and the details in
His creation. Astronomers such as Copernicus, Keppler, and Galileo; the
father of paleontology, Cuvier; the pioneer of botany and zoology, Lin-
naeus; and Isaac Newton, who is referred to as the "greatest scientist who
ever lived", all studied science believing not only in the existence of Allah
but also that the whole universe came into being as a result of His cre-
ation. Albert Einstein, considered to be the greatest genius of our age,
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was another devout scientist who believed in Allah and stated thus; "I can-
not conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situa-
tion may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame." 7
One of the founders of modern physics, German physician Max
Planck said: "Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work
of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of sci-
ence are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the sci-
entist cannot dispense with." 8
The theory of evolution is the outcome of the materialist philosophy
that surfaced with the reawakening of ancient materialistic philosophies
and became widespread in the 19th century. As we have indicated before,
materialism seeks to explain nature through purely material factors. Since
it denies creation right from the start, it asserts that every thing, whether
animate or inanimate, has appeared without an act of creation but rather