This 150-year-old theory, cloaked in its shell of science, is still being used as a basis for a serious program. The theory of evolution, which emerged popularly with the publication of Charles Darwin’s 1859 work “The Origin of Species,” has been literally used since that day as a weapon in the war against belief in Allah, and against religion in general. The clear turn of the entire world toward religion in the wake of the breakup of the Soviet Union has elicited a marked nervousness among more materialistic circles. It is not for nothing that there is a desire in this period following a period of “comatose” to bring Darwinism back from the dead as a specter. After all, was it not just recently that one of the main actors in the Feb. 28 period expressed his discomfort with criticism targeting Darwinism? The source of his real discomfort was linked to the enlivening of Islam and the fact that Darwinism has not fulfilled its expected duties in preventing this resurgence.
In Turkey there was a stubborn and insistent desire of the type which classified any debate over the weakening in our belief in Allah as “reactionaryism” to pour Darwinism like cement into the brains of our children as a service to this ideology. Darwin explained his discoveries of the accidental presence of life on earth, the coincidental start of single-celled life in the seas, the jump by fish to land, the evolution to reptiles, the gradual move from quadrupeds to bipeds and the evolution from monkeys to humans as a theory. And we are expected to accept this theory as though it is a real discovery of the truth. And for our children, who believe from their families, their religion courses and the Koran that human beings were created from Adam and Eve, to be told to leave off those “superstitions” has absolutely nothing to do with religious freedom or freedom of consciousness, or with freedom of believe or worship. What it amounts to is disrespect toward those who believe. This theory, which some attempt to prove with false documents, hits more and more snags with every advance of science; there is no one who can ask us to accept it as enlightened. And this is where the heart of our objections lies.
No matter what people believe, it is their business alone. What’s more, the world of science itself has begun to ridicule Darwinism. Just look at what a well-known old atheist, Patrick Guyn, says: “It used to be in the 1960s and the 1970s that if you studied at Harvard and went to church on a Sunday, people would see you as someone a bit strange, an old-fashioned sort of person. But these days, things are very different. We have started to see a very strong religious strain among American intellectuals. Well-known physicists like Polkinghorne defend the presence of God and in a very reasonable and convincing way. For example, in the 1970s, physicists discovered a very interesting and thought-provoking state of affairs. All of the universe’s physical balances, for example gravity or the nuclear powers that hold atoms together, were in the most ideal state in which they could exist. This surprising finding, which was called the ‘Principle of Entropy,’ came to provide a giant piece of evidence pointing toward the fact that the universe we live in did not come about by accident, and that the world we inhabit was created specifically for us.” (Mustafa Akyol, Sizinti magazine, April 2005)
And so, with every day that passes, science seems to corroborate with the Koran, which is why the truly erudite of this world are the real successors of the Prophet.
