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HARUN YAHYA

science has reached the point of confirming that the universe came
into being from nothing (that is, it was created), which has invali-
dated all theories and philosophies supporting materialism and ma-
terialist views.
However, even if materialists' views conflict with scientific evi-
dence, they cannot at any cost accept that matter is not absolute but
created. If they could just step back from their dogmatic prejudice
for a moment, they would be able to see the plain truth and free
themselves from the spell that materialism has cast on them. To do
this, it will be sufficient to put their accustomed view to one side, rid
themselves of their ideological bigotry and keep an open mind.
One of the first things they must consider is the real nature of
the concept of time, because materialists think that time, along with
matter, is absolute. This deception has prevented many of them from
seeing the truth. Modern science has proven that time is a derivative
of matter and that like matter itself, time was created from nothing.
That is, time had a beginning. Also, it became known in last century
that time is a relative concept; that it is a kind of changing perception
and not something stable and unchanging, as materialists had be-
lieved for centuries.

The Real Nature of the Concept of Time

What we call "time" is in fact a method by which we compare
one moment to another. For example, when a person taps an object,
he hears a particular sound. If he taps the same object again, he hears
another sound. Believing that there is an interval between the two
sounds, he calls this interval "time." Yet when he hears the second
noise, the first one he heard is no more than an imagination in his
mind, merely a bit of information in his memory. A person formu-

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