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evidence that has come to light, the scientific community has finally ac-
cepted the Big Bang theory, that is, that the universe had a beginning, and
therefore humanists have no argument. Thus, in the words of the British
philosopher Antony Flew:
… the Stratonician atheist has to be embarrassed by the contemporary
cosmological consensus. For it seems that the cosmologists are provid-
ing a scientific proof of what St. Thomas contended could not be proved
philosophically; namely, that the universe had a beginning… 36
2. The theory of evolution, the so-called scientific justification be-

hind the first Humanist Manifesto, started to lose ground in the decades
after it was written. It is known today that the scenario proposed for the
origin of life by atheist (and no doubt humanist) evolutionists, such as A.
I. Oparin and J. B. S. Haldane in the 1930's, has no scientific validity; living
things cannot be generated spontaneously from non-living matter as pro-
posed by this scenario. The fossil record demonstrates that living things
did not develop through a process of small cumulative changes, but ap-

peared abruptly with their distinct characteristics, and this fact has been
accepted by evolutionist paleontologists themselves since the 1970's.
Modern biology has demonstrated that living things are not the result of
chance and natural laws, but that there are in each organism complex sys-
tems that are evidence for Creation. (For details refer to Harun Yahya,
Darwinism Refuted: How the Theory of Evolution Breaks Down in the Light of

Modern Science)
Moreover, the erroneous claim that religious belief was the factor
that prevented humanity from progressing and drew it into conflict has
been disproved by historical experience. Humanists have claimed that the
removal of religious belief would make people happy and at ease, how-
ever, the opposite has proved to be the case. Six years after the first Hu-
manist Manifesto was published, the Second World War broke out, a

record of the calamity brought upon the world by the secular fascist ideol-
ogy. The humanist ideology of communism wreaked, first on the people

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