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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

cussing and testing it in a mere objective manner. No, immediately after
Darwinism made its appearance, it had its enthusiastic advocates and
passionate opponents. ...Darwinism, too, played a role in the class-
struggle, and it is owing to this role that it spread so rapidly and had en-
thusiastic advocates and venomous opponents.
Darwinism served as a tool to the bourgeoisie in their struggle against
the feudal class, against the nobility, clergy-rights and feudal
lords...What the bourgeoisie wanted was to get rid of the old ruling
powers standing in their way... With the aid of religion the priests held
the great mass in subjection and ready to oppose the demands of the
bourgeoisie...
Natural science became a weapon in the opposition to belief and tradi-
tion; science and the newly discovered natural laws were put forward; it
was with these weapons that the bourgeoisie fought...
Darwinism came at the desired time; Darwin' s theory that man is the de-
scendant of a lower animal destroyed the entire foundation of Christian
dogma. It is for this reason that as soon as Darwinism made its appear-
ance, the bourgeoisie grasped it with great zeal.
...Under these circumstances, even the scientific discussions were carried
on with the zeal and passion of a class struggle. The writings that ap-
peared pro and con on Darwin have therefore the character of social
polemics, despite the fact that they bear the names of scientific au-
thors... 109

Though Anton Pannekoek, because he thinks in terms of Marxist
class analysis, defines the force that spread Darwinism and put into effect
an organized struggle against religion as "bourgeoisie," when we examine
the matter in light of more historical evidence, we see that there was an or-
ganization within the bourgeoisie that used Darwinism to pursue their
war against religion. That organization was Masonry.
This fact is clear both from historical evidence as well as Masonic
sources. One of these sources is an article by Master Mason Selami

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