Materialism – The superstition of an age

Ancient Greek thinkers imagined that all bodies were made up of tiny particles called atoms. They held that these atoms shaped the universe and all living things, without intention or direction and without being subject to any conscious intervention. According to this belief, matter was timeless and eternal, and nothing beyond matter could exist. The supernatural events that intervened in the behavior of the entities and altered their structures was pure superstition, unacceptable. All the axioms and principles were based on the assumption that matter was an absolute reality.

Since matter was eternal, the universe must also be eternal, and that idea served as the foundation of atheism. If the entire universe had existed forever, then, according to the perversion of materialist belief, it was impossible for matter and the universe to have ever been created.

According to materialists, the universe was eternal and therefore there was no special purpose or creation in it. Materialists imagined that all balance, balance, harmony, and order in the universe were solely the result of chance. They claimed that everything arose as a result of unconscious atoms randomly assembling. And no matter how much complexity, balance, and magnificent regularity the external world exhibited, it was still the result of purposeless coincidence.

Materialistic minds had held onto this preconception or idée fixe since the days of ancient Greece. Since materialism rejected the concepts of purpose and creation of the universe, it also denied the existence of a Creator. To be strictly accurate, materialism was a philosophy that had been proclaimed to reject Allah (God). Many movements, ideologies, and intellectual systems that rejected belief in Allah were similarly rooted in materialism. In other words, materialism was the more influential religion than atheism.

Stanley Sobottka, a professor of physics at the University of Virginia, describes the perversion of materialism in these terms:

If we believe this way [believe in materialism], we must conclude that everything, including ourselves and all life, is governed entirely by physical law. Physical law is the only law that governs our desires, our hopes, our ethics, our goals, and our destinies. Matter and energy must be our main focus, the object of all our desires and ambitions. Specifically, this means that our lives should be focused on acquiring material goods (including bodies), or at least rearranging or exchanging them, to produce maximum material satisfaction and pleasure. We must spend all our energy in this search, because there can be no other goal. And in all of this, we have no choice, because we are totally governed by physical law. We can feel trapped by these beliefs and desires, but we can’t get rid of them. They dominate us completely.

A succinct, personalized, and summarized statement of the materialist philosophy is: “I am a body.” (Stanley Sobottka, “A Course in Consciousness)

In ancient Greece, materialists held that religious adherents were illogically opposed to science. For that reason, materialists throughout history have tried to give the impression that belief in Allah and science are incompatible. In fact, however, science has shown more and more evidence of His existence, and those discoveries worked against the materialistic mindset that fought against belief in Allah.

This included Darwinism, of course. The fight against Darwinism is basically an attack on its materialistic origins.

Throughout history, materialists have claimed that entities consisted simply of assemblages of atoms and that the human brain was nothing more than a network of neurons. They could not explain the human mind and tried to explain it as the electrochemical interaction between its neurons.

Materialists had no qualifications to describe themselves as animals or machines. They denied that they had the status of sentient entities and claimed that they had come into existence by chance. However, this was a serious mistake and a fabricated lie to deny Allah.

In the words of quantum particle physicist Stephen M. Barr of the Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware, these people who believed in the absolute reality of matter were almost no different from the pagans of the past. Like the ancient pagans, materialists describe humans as essentially subhuman. the pagans deify matter; the materialists did the same by denying the soul and reducing everything to the level of matter. The pagans declared that events were determined by the orbits of the planets and stars; the materialists claimed they were controlled by the ebb and flow of hormones in their brains. Pagans fell down to worship before false animal deities; the materialists claimed that they themselves were no more than animals.

(Stephen M. Barr, “Retelling the Story of Science,” March 2003)

Amit Goswami, professor of physics at the Institute of Theoretical Sciences at the University of Oregon, describes the fundamental logic with which materialists sought to indoctrinate people:

We are conditioned to believe that we are machines, that all our actions are determined by the stimuli we receive and by our previous conditioning. As exiles, we have no responsibility or choice; our free will is a mirage. (Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World, Tarcher/Penguin Books, 1995, p. 12.)

The fact is, however, that Allah created man. And man is not an entity devoid of purpose and responsibility. Contrary to what the materialists affirm, man is not a machine that he does not think about. Man is an entity with a responsibility before Allah and he must render an account for all his acts in the Hereafter.

The materialistic logic that seeks to mislead people from this fact has been evident at all times throughout history, since the days of Ancient Greece. However, it was only in the 19th century that this belief spread and became established as an established intellectual system. In the 19th century, the vast majority of classical physicists believed that the fundamental building blocks of matter were inanimate, indivisible atoms, like little billiard balls, and that the perfect regularity and complexity of the universe were the result of random motion and compounds. of these atoms. From his point of view, everything on Earth, including life, arose by accident through a series of blind and unconscious processes. The atoms established unreasonable unions and gave rise to the world we see with all its perfect features, and also to ourselves, with our minds and consciousness.

By expounding these claims, materialists sought to indoctrinate people with the idea that man was not created by a Creator and that apart from matter, nothing existed. However, the fact is that man was obviously created with perfect systems and mechanisms, through an extraordinary mind and intelligence. There were no unconscious processes on Earth of the kind suggested by the materialists, and no thoughtless structures and systems arose as a consequence. Everything shows a complexity and sublimity that often exceeds the comprehension capacity of the human mind, and these details are so perfect that they exclude all possibility of chance. The Earth itself reveals proof of creation.

Despite these facts, however, the materialists persisted in their claims that unconscious atoms were the basis of all things. So what, according to materialists, were these atoms, the source of everything else that exists?

In a sense, we now know that the atom is an almost complete vacuum, and that is a proven fact. We can explain this as follows: If you imagine the atomic nucleus, made up of neutrons and protons, as a pinhead only 1 millimeter (0.039 of an inch) in diameter, then an electron revolving around that nucleus does so at a distance of 100 meters. (328 feet)! (Taskin Tuna, Ol Dedi Oldu: Big Bang’in Nefes Kesen Öyküsü, October 2005, Sule Publications, p. 59)

In this considerable volume between the nucleus and the electrons, all that exists is empty space. This 100 meter void is literally empty. So, in a sense, experts are justified in considering the atom as an empty void. In the words of British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, matter is mostly ghostly empty space. (Peter Russell, “The Primacy of Consciousness) To be more precise, it is 99.9999999% empty.

Fred Alan Wolf, a particle physicist at the University of California, describes this fact with respect to the atom:

If you stop to think about it, you might realize that life on the planet as we live it is truly a surprise, considering how empty the universe really is. In fact, the universe is more than 99 percent nothing! And considering that the universe is still expanding at an alarming rate, it’s becoming more nothing than it ever was!

So while looking at it leaves us in awe, when we consider the microworld of subatomic matter, it’s even worse. There, nothing exists in spades, so to speak. (Fred Alan Wolf, The Spiritual Universe: One Physicist’s Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter and Self, Moment Point Press, 1999, p. 99)

At the beginning of the 20th century, it was known that there was a giant empty space inside the atom, which was considered the smallest component of all things, and that this space contained a nucleus and electrons revolving around it. However, only the outlines of matter, the atom and its fundamental parts, were understood. So what was in the atomic nucleus, in a space just 10 to 18 kilometers across, or a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a kilometer? That was something unknown to scientists.

In the 1960s, a very significant scientific discovery was made. It was realized that deep within the proton were particles known as quarks. These extraordinarily tiny particles caused protons to have a positive electrical charge and neutrons to have no charge. The investigation eventually revealed the presence of a gloriously complex world in what comprised just 0.0000001 of the atom.

The more materialists descended into the depths of the atom and the more extraordinary details they saw in the smallest building block of matter, the more they searched for some solution by developing their theory in another direction. For the entire universe to form unconsciously and randomly, they had to explain how not only atoms, but also the world within the atom, in other words, the motions of subatomic particles, had come into existence. The idea that matter was the only thing that existed survived in the materialistic mind, until the discovery of quantum physics.