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the law of evolution and slowly spread over the earth. As a result of evo-
lution, today's human beings came to be and advanced beyond other an-
imals both in consciousness and intelligence. 113
It is important to notice the connection between cause and effect sug-
gested in the above quotation: Isindag stresses that the most important
characteristic of Masonry is that it rejects theism, that is, belief in Allah.
And immediately afterwards, he claims "on this basis" that life arose spon-

taneously from lifeless matter, and later underwent evolution that re-
sulted in the appearance of human beings.
It will be noticed that Isindag brings no scientific evidence to bear on
the theory of evolution. (The fact that there is no scientific evidence is pre-
supposed by the obtuse words these are facts "that we cannot know or dis-
cover today"). The only support that Isindag supplies for the theory of
evolution is the Masonic non-acceptance of theism.

In other words, Masons are evolutionists because they do not accept
the existence of Allah. This is the only reason for their being evolutionists.
In the constitution of the "Great Council of Turkey" organized by
Turkish Masons of the 33rd degree, the evolution scenario was once again
restated, and the Masons' rejection of the Creationist explanation ex-

pressed in these words:
In a very early age and according to an inorganic process, organic life
came to be. In order to produce cellular organisms cells came together in
groups. Later, intelligence sprang forth and human beings were born.
But from where? We keep asking ourselves this question. Was it from
God's breathing over formless mud? We reject the explanation of an ab-
normal kind of creation; a kind of creation that excludes man. Since life
and its genealogy exist, we must follow the philogenetic line and feel,
understand and acknowledge that a wheel exists that explains this great
deed, that is the act of "leap." We must believe that there was a phase of
development in which there was a great rush of activity that caused life
to pass at a particular moment from that phase to another. 114

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