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According to the Darwinists and materialists, the whole universe, human beings included, is the work of chaos and coincidences. As the influence of this view grows in society, there emerge irresponsible people who believe themselves to be totally unrestricted.
A person who has no purpose does not think, cannot form the aim of developing himself, is uncaring, mocking, is unfeeling, affected by nothing, cannot use his conscience, and recognises no rules or limits. He can possess no virtue or finer quality. In his own perverse view, as a developed animal himself, in this world he must look for food and reproduce, in the same way as other living creatures, and after meeting certain needs must find as much entertainment and enjoyment as possible and wait for death. And it can be seen that, even though most people are unaware of the details of Darwinism, they live the life that Darwinism foresaw for mankind.
Because they live a life which is ruthless and which will eventually come to an end, these people are carried away by great pessimism and hopelessness. The thought that everything will end with death and become as nothing causes these people to be unhappy and shut up within themselves. One of the reasons behind suicides, psychological problems, and depressions is the negatives effects of the Darwinist spell on human psychology.
Richard Dawkins, one of the fiercest defenders of evolution of our times, reveals one example of this. Dawkins claims that human beings are gene machines and that the only reason for their existence is to pass these genes on to subsequent generations. In Dawkins' corrupt view there is no other purpose to either the universe's or man's existence. All the universe and human beings are the products of chaos and coincidence. People who are deceived by such a claim easily fall prey to depression and hopelessness. He who believes that the only point to life is to pass on his genes, and that everything ends with death, that nothing he does in the world has any meaning, who thinks that friendship, love, goodness, and beauty have no value, will think that life is pitiless and unnecessary and will be able to take no pleasure from anything. In the foreword to his book Unweaving the Rainbow, Dawkins admits the negative and pessimistic effect his claim regarding the point of human life has on people:
A foreign publisher of my first book confessed that he could not sleep for three nights after reading it, so troubled was he by what he saw as its cold, bleak message. Others have asked me how I can bear to get up in the mornings. A teacher from a distant country wrote to me reproachfully that a pupil had come to him in tears after reading the same book, because it had persuaded her that life was empty and purposeless. He advised her not to show the book to any of her friends, for fear of contaminating them with the same nihilistic pessimism. Similar accusations of barren desolation, of promoting an arid and joyless message, are frequently flung at science in general, and it is easy for scientists to play up to them. My colleague Peter Atkins begins his book The Second Law (1984) in this vein:
We are the children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of chaos. Gone is purpose; all that is left is direction. This is the bleakness we have to accept as we peer deeply and dispassionately into the heart of the Universe.135
Another Darwinist who proposed that life is nothing and caused life to be looked at pessimistically, was the German philosopher Nietzsche, whose theses of racial superiority provided a philosophical support for Hitler. The thought Nietzsche put forward, known as "nihilism" or "nothingism" is basically this: Man must have a reason for living. But this purpose, according to Nietzsche who denied the existence of God, has nothing to do with God's having created man. For this reason, in Nietzsche's philosophy, man constantly seeks a purpose but is unable to find one and experiences the pessimism and hopelessness born of this. The right thing is to seek the purpose behind man's existence. But if, like Nietzsche, a person absolutely rejects the fundamental purpose and starts to look for a purpose outside the scope of this truth, then of course he is not going to be able to find it. And let us add here that Nietzsche died mad.
Societies which forget that they were created by God for a purpose inevitably undergo a moral and spiritual collapse. Wealth, welfare, and economic development in no way bring these people peace and security. Many things push people who fail to think with clean intellect and to comply with the commands of conscience, and who see themselves as unrestricted and purposeless creatures, to unhappiness, hopelessness, and pessimism. A most important thing is the sorrow that these people, who think that they will cease to exist with death, will feel when they see the true life that they will meet after death.
Whereas a person who believes in God and the hereafter is aware of what an important outcome he is living for. He always bears the joy and hope of winning the mercy of God and paradise. Whatever happens he gives thanks to God: for which reason he never falls prey to hopelessness and pessimism.
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131- Ernst Mayr, "Interview", Omni, March/April 1988, p. 46; cited in Henry M. Morris, John D. Morris, The Modern Creation Triology, Vol. 3, p. 12
132- Kenneth A. Ham, The Lie Evolution, Master Books, April 1997, p. 84
133- Theodosius Dobzhansky, "Ethics and Values in Biological and Cultural Evolution”, Zygon, the Journal of Religion and Science, as reported in Los Angeles Times, part IV (June 16, 1974), p. 6
134- Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin, W. W. Norton & Company, New York 1992, p. 223
135- Richard Dawkins, Unweaving The Rainbow, Houghton Mifflin Company, Newyork, 1998, p. ix)