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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
and vain belief. According to positivist science and reason, there is no
spirit apart from the body. 81
You will find views identical to those above in the books of materialist
thinkers such as K. Marx, F. Engels, V .I. Lenin, G. Politzer, C. Sagan, and J.
Monod. They all accept the basic materialist myth that the universe has ex-

isted for ever, matter is the one absolute existent entity, human beings are
composed of matter and are without spirit, matter evolved in and out of it-
self, and life appeared as a result of chance. It is right to use the term myth
because, contrary to Isindag's claim that "these processes are the result of
positivist science and reason," all these views have been invalidated by sci-
entific discoveries in the second half of the twentieth century. For example,

the Big Bang theory, accepted in scientific circles as proven, shows scientif-
ically that the universe was created from nothing millions of years ago. The
Laws of Thermodynamics show that matter does not have the ability to or-

The materialist theories in Masonic literature are no different from those found
in the writings of materialist ideologues such as Marx, Engels and Lenin.

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