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Darwinism Proposes the Lie that Man is Unrestrained and

Purposeless

The following words by the evolutionist George Gaylord Simpson are the clearest summary of

Darwinism's view of humanity, founded totally on deceptions:

Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconscious, impersonal, material process with
unique understanding and potentialities. These he owes to no one but himself, and it is to himself that he is re-
sponsible. 165

This claim represents one of Darwinism's classical falsehoods, and one of the main causes of societal
collapse. Darwinists cannot offer the slightest scientific evidence for proposing that man managed to bring
himself into the world, yet seek to preserve this falsehood for ideological reasons. According to their un-

realistic claim, there is no predetermined reason for the existence of human beings—allegedly purposeless
entities who will one day die and disappear. Yet the truth is very different. God created man from nothing.
Behind human creation is a definite purpose, which is revealed in the Qur'an. God created human beings

to serve Him. Every human will remain on Earth for the time allotted in line with a specific destiny, and
after that allotted period has come to an end with death, will be resurrected. On the Day of Judgment, all
human beings will be called to account for their actions in this world. That evolutionists try with all their
power to forget this fact, and to cause others to deny it, changes nothing. So long as they refuse to aban-
don these errors in this world, denying God and the Day of Judgment and maintaining that man is a pur-

poseless entity, when the Day of Judgment actually comes, the regret they experience will be very great.
Our Lord has revealed this in the Qur'an:

If only you could see when they are standing before the Fire and saying, "Oh! If only we could be sent back
again, we would not deny the signs of our Lord and we would be among the believers." (Surat al-An'am, 27)
Suggesting that there is no purpose behind their lives leads people to suffer a feeling of emptiness and
terrible depression. Those who believe that falsehood see life as meaningless and unnecessary, and this in

turn leads to a spiritual collapse. The irrational, illogical claims of Richard Dawkins, one of today's most
prominent proponents of the theory of evolution, are typical of the materialist view. Dawkins maintains
that human beings are all mere "gene machines," and that the only reason for existence is to pass their

genes on to subsequent generations. According to Dawkins, there is no other purpose behind the universe:
Man and the universe are both products of coincidence and chaos. This belief will inflict great despair and
unhappiness, since nothing has any significance for someone who believes that at the moment of death, he
will simply cease to exist. Friendship, love and good deeds give no joy to someone who imagines that they
will receive no reward and will not survive in any case.

In addition, this distorted moral fabric will make people imagine that their evil deeds will go unrec-
ompensed. That will lead them to imagine that they can conceal those deeds to avoid being punished for
them, and therefore feel no compunction or hesitation over lying, hypocrisy, gossiping, making unjust

profits, theft and even murder. In any society where the number of people deceived by such a twisted con-
ception increases, then order and stability will be out of the question.
One of the most striking instances of the damage that Darwinist propaganda inflicted on the human
soul appears in the preface to Dawkins' book Unweaving the Rainbow:

A foreign publisher of my first book confessed that he could not sleep for three nights after reading it, so trou-

bled was he by what he saw as its cold, bleak message. Others have asked me how I can bear to get up in the
mornings. A teacher from a distant country wrote me reproachfully that a pupil had come to him in tears after
reading the same book, because it had persuaded her that life was empty and purposeless. He advised her not
to show the book to any of her friends, for fear of contaminating them with the same nihilistic pessimism. 166

As can be seen from Dawkins's admission, the pessimism and purposelessness that Darwinism sug-
gests represent a grave threat to society. People are offered not a bleak message, as by Dawkins suggested,

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