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nother error of those who promote the decep-
tion that history and society evolved is the claim
that religion—society's highest value—evolved
as well. This claim was put forth in the 19th cen-
tury and was avidly defended by materialists
and atheists. But there are no archaeological findings to justify it and
it remains in the realm of speculation.
Nor is there any support to claim that humans of earlier ages
practiced so-called "primitive" tribal and polytheist religions, and
that true religion—the religion revealed to the whole of humanity
since the time of Adam (pbuh) and based on the belief in one God—
came into being only later. Some evolutionists try to portray this

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