The 20th century, 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 paleontology 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 behavior. 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 colonization of third world countries by
such imperialist nations as Britain and their suffering inhuman treatment,
together with the fact that colored 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" summarizes 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.
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-centered mentalities and currents of thought,
that will spell the end of these harmful ideologies. Those who do and
systematize 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-centered, 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 realize 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 realize 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. (For further
information on the subject, see "Disasters Darwinism Brought to
Humanity" by Harun Yahya)
