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Introduction
The Bringers of Pain to the 20th Century
The 20th century,
which we have just left behind us, was a century of war and conflict,
leading to disasters, pain, massacres, poverty, and enormous destruction.
Millions of people were killed, massacred, abandoned to hunger and death,
and left without home or shelter, protection, or support. And all for
nothing: in the name of serving deviant ideologies. Millions were left
exposed to inhuman treatment that not even animals should be allowed to
suffer. On nearly every occasion there were despots' and dictators' signatures
beneath all the suffering and disasters: Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao,
Pol Pot, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco… While some of these men shared the
same ideology, others were enemies to the death. For the simple reason
that their ideologies were opposed to each other, they dragged societies
into conflict and turned brother against brother, having them start wars,
throw bombs, burn and destroy cars, homes, and shops, and hold riotous
demonstrations. Putting weapons in their hands, they had them pitilessly
beat the young, the old, men, women, and children to death or stand them
against a wall and shoot them… They were ruthless enough to hold a gun
to a person's head and, looking into his eyes, kill him, and crush his
head with their feet, just because he supported another idea. They ejected
people from their homes, whether women, children, or the elderly…
That is a short resume of the nightmares of the 20th century that we
have just emerged from: people who supported conflicting ideas and who
drowned mankind in pain and blood in the name of supporting these ideologies
Fascism and Communism come at the head of the ideologies that caused
mankind to suffer those dark days. These are seen as enemies, as ideas
that tried to destroy each other. In actual fact, there is a most interesting
truth here: for these ideologies were nourished by a single ideological
source, drew strength and support from that source, and, thanks to that
source, were able to draw societies to their side. At first sight, this
source has never drawn any attention, has always remained behind the scenes
up until now, and has always shown people its innocent-looking face. That
source is the materialist philosophy, and DARWINISM, the state of that
philosophy as adapted to nature.
Darwinism emerged in the 19th century as the restating of a myth, dating
back to the Sumerians and Ancient Greece, by the amateur biologist Charles
Darwin, and has since then formed the fundamental idea behind all the
ideologies that have been harmful to mankind. Wearing a so-called scientific
mask, it allowed these ideologies and their supporters' practical measures
to win a false legitimacy.
By means of this false legitimacy the theory of evolution soon left the
fields of knowledge of biology and palaeontology and began to comment
on fields from human relations to history, and to influence fields from
politics to social life. Because some particular claims of Darwinism supported
several currents of thought which began to come into motion and take shape
in the 19th century, it gained wide support from these circles. In particular,
people began trying to apply the idea that there is a "fight for survival"
among living creatures in nature, and as a result, the idea that "the
strong survive, the others are defeated and disappear" began to be applied
to human thought and behaviour. When Darwinism's claim that nature was
a place of struggle and conflict began to be applied to human beings and
societies, Hitler's deviation of building a master race, Marx's claim
that "the history of mankind is the history of class struggle," capitalism's
provision for the "strong growing even stronger at the expense of the
weak," the colonisation of third world countries by such imperialist nations
as Britain and their suffering inhuman treatment, together with the fact
that coloured people still face racist attacks and discrimination, all
found some kind of justification.
Despite his being an evolutionist, Robert Wright, the author of the book
The Moral Animal summarises the disasters that the theory of evolution
has brought to the history of mankind in this way:
Evolutionary theory, after all, has a long
and largely sordid history of application to human affairs. After being
mingled with political philosophy around the turn of the century to form
the vague ideology known as "social Darwinism," it played into the hands
of racists, fascists, and the most heartless sort of capitalists.1
As will be seen in this book and from the evidence it contains, Darwinism
is not just a theory which attempts to explain the origin of life and which
is restricted to the field of scientific knowledge. Darwinism is a dogma
still stubbornly defended by the supporters of certain ideologies, despite
the fact that it has been proven totally invalid from the scientific point
of view. In our day many scientists, politicians and men of ideas, whether
aware or not of Darwinism's dark face, lend their support to this dogma
If everyone comes to know the scientific invalidity of this theory, which
acts as an inspiration for cruel dictators, and ruthless, inhuman, and
self-centred mentalities and currents of thought, that will spell the
end of these harmful ideologies. Those who do and systematise evil will
be unable to defend themselves by saying, "But this is a law of nature."
They will have no more so-called scientific backing for their self-centred,
selfish, and pitiless world view.
Once the idea of Darwinism, the root of harmful ideologies, is finally
overturned, only one truth will remain. That is the truth that all human
beings and the universe itself were created by Allah (God). People who
understand this will also realise that the only reality and the only truth
are in the holy book He sent down to us. When a large majority of people
come to realise this truth, the pains, troubles, massacres, disasters,
injustices, and poverty in the world will be replaced by enlightenment,
openness, wealth, plenty, health and abundance. For this, every false
idea harmful to humanity must be conquered and left to rot by the holy
idea which will bring beauty to mankind. To reply to stones by throwing
others, to answer blows with blows, to answer the aggressor with more
aggression is not a solution. The solution is to bring down the ideas
of those who do these things and to explain, patiently and kindly, the
one truth with which they must replace them.
The aim in writing this book is to show those who defend Darwinism without
seeing its dark face, knowingly or unknowingly, what it is they are actually
supporting, and to explain what their responsibility will be as long as
they pretend not to see the truth of it. Another aim is to warn those
who do not believe in Darwinism, but who also do not see Darwinism as
a threat to humanity.
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