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efore the spread of mate ri al ist phi los o phy,
the sci en tif ic world accept ed the fact that
Allah had cre at ed the uni verse and every -
thing in it from noth ing and kept it under
His might at all moments. Mate ri al ism, how e ver, first
denied Allah's eter nal domin ion over nature. The view
known as mech a nism advanced the prop o si tion that all
the sys tems in nature and the uni verse func tioned like
machin ery, in a self-con tained man ner. One of the fore -
most 18th-cen tu ry rep re sent a tives of this the sis was the
French man Pierre Simon de Laplace, who explained the
motion of the Solar Sys tem by using the laws of grav i ty.
And in a reply to Napo le on, who ques tioned his the o ry,
he fell into a seri ous error by deny ing that the func tion -
ing of the uni verse was under the con trol of Allah.
In the 19th cen tu ry, these errors grew still fur ther: the
false hood was prop a gat ed claiming that not only the
func tion ing of the uni verse could be explained sole ly in
terms of nat u ral laws, but so could the ori gins of liv ing
things. In other words, in the same way that Allah's
domin ion over nature and the uni verse was denied, so
was His orig i nal Cre a tion. The fore run ner of this rejec -
tion was Charles Dar win, who main tained that liv ing

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