| rt --> | | | | stimuli we receive and by our prior conditioning. As |
| Ancient Greek thinkers imagined that all bodies | | | | exiles, we have no responsibility, no choice; our free will |
| consisted of tiny particles called atoms. They | | | | is a mirage. (Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe: |
| maintained that these atoms shaped the universe and | | | | How Consciousness Creates the Material World, |
| all living things, without intention or direction and without | | | | Tarcher/ Penguin Books, 1995, p. 12.) |
| being subjected to any conscious intervention. | | | | The fact is, however, that Allah created man. And man |
| According to this belief, matter was timeless and | | | | is not an entity devoid of purpose and responsibility. |
| eternal, and nothing beyond matter could exist. | | | | Contrary to what materialists claim, man is not an |
| Supernatural events that intervened in entities' behavior | | | | unthinking machine. Man is an entity with a responsibility |
| and altered their structures was sheer superstition, | | | | to Allah and will be held to account for all his deeds in |
| unacceptable. All axioms and principles were based on | | | | the Hereafter. |
| the assumption that matter was an absolute reality. | | | | The materialist logic that seeks to divert people away |
| Since matter was eternal, the universe must be eternal | | | | from this fact has been evident at all times throughout |
| as well, and that idea served as the foundation of | | | | history, ever since the days of Ancient Greece. Yet it |
| atheism. If the entire universe had existed for all time, | | | | was only in the 19th century that this belief spread and |
| then according to the perversion of materialist belief, it | | | | became established as a settled intellectual system. In |
| was impossible for matter and the universe to ever | | | | the 19th century, the great majority of classical |
| have been created. | | | | physicists thought that the fundamental components of |
| According to materialists, the universe was eternal, and | | | | matter were inanimate and indivisible atoms, just like |
| therefore, there was no purpose or special creation in | | | | tiny billiard balls, and that the perfect regularity and |
| it. Materialists imagined that all the balances, equilibrium, | | | | complexity in the universe were the result of the |
| harmony and order in the universe were solely the | | | | random motion and compounds of these atoms. In |
| results of chance. They claimed that everything came | | | | their view, everything on Earth, life included, came into |
| into being as the result of unconscious atoms | | | | being by accident through a series of blind, unconscious |
| assembling at random. And no matter how much | | | | processes. Atoms established unreasoning unions and |
| complexity, balance and magnificent regularity exhibited | | | | gave rise to the world we see with all its perfect |
| by the external world, these were still the result of | | | | features-and also to ourselves, with our minds and |
| purposeless coincidences. | | | | consciousness. |
| Materialist minds had held this preconception or | | | | By setting out these claims, materialists sought to |
| idée fixe ever since the days of Ancient | | | | indoctrinate people with the idea that man was not |
| Greece. Since materialism rejected the concepts of | | | | made by a Creator and that apart from matter, |
| purpose and creation to the universe, it also denied the | | | | nothing existed. The fact is, though, that man was |
| existence of a Creator. To be strictly accurate, | | | | obviously created with perfect systems and |
| materialism was a philosophy which had been | | | | mechanisms, through an extraordinary mind and |
| formulated to reject Allah (God). Many movements, | | | | intelligence. There were no unconscious processes on |
| ideologies and intellectual systems that rejected belief | | | | Earth of the kind suggested by materialists, and no |
| in Allah were, similarly, rooted in materialism. In other | | | | unthinking structures and systems arose as a |
| words, materialism was the most influential religion of | | | | consequence. Everything displays a complexity and |
| atheism. | | | | sublimity that often exceeds the capacity of human |
| Stanley Sobottka, a professor of physics from Virginia | | | | minds to comprehend, and so perfect are these details |
| University, describes the perversion of materialism in | | | | that they exclude all possibility of chance. The Earth |
| these terms: | | | | itself reveals proofs of creation. |
| If we believe this way [believe in materialism], we must | | | | Despite these facts, however, materialists insisted in |
| conclude that everything, including ourselves and all of | | | | their claims that unconscious atoms were the basis of |
| life, is governed completely by physical law. Physical | | | | all things. So what, according to materialists, were |
| law is the only law governing our desires, our hopes, | | | | these atoms, the source of all else that exists? |
| our ethics, our goals, and our destinies. Matter and | | | | In one respect, we now know that the atom is an |
| energy must be our primary focus, the object of all of | | | | almost complete void, and that is a proven fact. We |
| our desires and ambitions. Specifically, this means that | | | | can explain this as follows: If you imagine the atomic |
| our lives must be focused on acquiring material goods | | | | nucleus, comprised of neutrons and protons, as a |
| (including bodies), or at least rearranging or exchanging | | | | pinhead just 1 millimeter (0.039 of an inch) in diameter, |
| them, in order to produce the maximum material | | | | then an electron revolving around that nucleus does so |
| satisfaction and pleasure. We must expend all of our | | | | at a distance of 100 meters (328 feet)! (Taskin Tuna, |
| energy in this quest, for there can be no other goal. | | | | Ol Dedi Oldu: Big Bang'in Nefes Kesen |
| And in all of this, we have no choice, because we are | | | | Öyküsü, October 2005, Sule |
| totally governed by physical law. We may feel trapped | | | | Publications, p. 59) |
| by these beliefs and desires, but we cannot shake | | | | In this considerable volume between the nucleus and |
| them. They totally dominate us. | | | | the electrons, the only thing that exists is empty space. |
| A succinct, personalized, summary statement of | | | | This 100-meter void is literally empty. That is why in |
| materialist philosophy is, "I am a body." (Stanley | | | | one sense, experts are justified in regarding the atom |
| Sobottka, "A Course in Consciousness) | | | | as an empty vacuum. In the words of the British |
| In Ancient Greece, materialists held that religious | | | | physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, matter is mostly ghostly |
| adherents were illogically opposed to science. For that | | | | empty space. (Peter Russell, "The Primacy of |
| reason, materialists throughout history have sought to | | | | Consciousness) To be more precise, it is 99.9999999% |
| give the impression that belief in Allah and science are | | | | empty. |
| incompatible. In fact, however, science has increasingly | | | | Fred Alan Wolf, a particle physicist at the University of |
| showed evidence of His existence, and those | | | | California describes this fact regarding the atom: |
| discoveries worked against the materialist mindset that | | | | If you stop to think about it at all, you might realize that |
| fought against belief in Allah. | | | | life on planet as we live it is really a surprise, |
| This included Darwinism, of course. The struggle | | | | considering just how empty the universe really is. In |
| against Darwinism is basically an attack on its | | | | fact, the universe is more than 99 percent nothing! And |
| materialist origins. | | | | considering that the universe is still expanding at an |
| Throughout the course of history, materialists claimed | | | | alarming rate, it's getting to be more nothing than it |
| that entities consisted merely of assemblages of | | | | ever was! |
| atoms, and that the human brain was nothing more | | | | So while looking out at it leaves us in awe, when we |
| than a network of neurons. They were unable to | | | | consider the microworld of subatomic matter, it's even |
| account for the human mind, and attempted to explain | | | | worse. There, nothing exists in spades, so to speak. |
| it as the electro-chemical interaction between its | | | | (Fred Alan Wolf, The Spiritual Universe: One Physicist's |
| neurons. | | | | Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter and Self, Moment Point |
| Materialists had no qualms about describing | | | | Press, 1999, p. 99) |
| themselves as animals or machines. They denied that | | | | At the beginning of the 20th century, it was known |
| they had the status of entities with consciousness and | | | | that there was a giant empty space inside the atom, |
| claimed that they had come into existence by chance. | | | | which was regarded as the smallest component of all |
| Yet this was a grave misconception and a lie | | | | things, and that this space contained a nucleus and |
| fabricated in order to deny Allah. | | | | electrons revolving around it. However, only the general |
| In the words of the quantum particle physicist Stephen | | | | lines of matter-the atom and its fundamental |
| M. Barr, of the Bartol Research Institute at the | | | | parts-were understood. So what was there in the |
| University of Delaware, these people who believed in | | | | atomic nucleus, in a space just 10-18 kilometer in size, |
| the absolute reality of matter were almost no different | | | | or one millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a |
| from the pagans of the past. Just like the ancient | | | | kilometer? That was something unknown to scientists. |
| pagans, materialists describe humans as essentially | | | | In the 1960s, a most significant scientific discovery was |
| sub-human. Pagans deified matter; materialists did the | | | | made. It was realized that in the depths of the proton, |
| same thing by denying the soul and reducing | | | | there were particles known as quarks. These |
| everything to the level of matter. Pagans declared that | | | | extraordinarily minute particles caused protons to have |
| events were determined by the orbits of the planets | | | | a positive electric charge, and neutrons to have no |
| and the stars; materialists claimed that they were | | | | charge. Research eventually revealed the presence of |
| controlled by the ebb and flow of the hormones in their | | | | a gloriously complex world in what comprised just |
| brains. Pagans prostrated themselves to worship in | | | | 0.0000001 of the atom. |
| front of false animal deities; materialists claimed that | | | | The more that materialists descended into the depths |
| they were no more than animals themselves. | | | | of the atom and the more extraordinary details they |
| (Stephen M. Barr, "Retelling the Story of Science," | | | | saw in matter's smallest building block, the more they |
| March 2003) | | | | sought some solution by developing their theory in |
| Amit Goswami, a professor of physics at the | | | | another direction. In order for the entire universe to |
| University of Oregon's Institute for Theoretical Science, | | | | form unconsciously and haphazardly, they had to |
| describes the fundamental logic with which materialists | | | | explain how not just atoms but also the world inside |
| sought to indoctrinate people: | | | | the atom,-in other words, the motions of sub-atomic |
| We are conditioned to believe that we are | | | | particles-had come into being. |
| machines-that all our actions are determined by the | | | | |