Has religion evolved?

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Pamho, agtSP!

 

This is taken from a very interesting and informative homepage -

www.harunyahya.com - which I visit frequently. It's a muslim page, it has

some mistakes, but it has more books and films, and more, smashing the

atheism and evolution myths than you can manage to read and watch. And in my

humble opinion the quality of the content of these things are in 95% of the

cases "very very good."

 

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THE TRUE RELIGION HAS EXISTED

SINCE THE BEGINNING OF HISTORY

 

Another error of those who promote the deception that history and society

evolved is the claim that religion, one of society’s highest values, also

evolved. This claim was put forth in the 19th century and was avidly

defended by materialists and atheists. But there are no archeological

findings to justify it and it remains in the realm of speculation.

 

There is no support for the claim that human beings in earlier ages believed

in primitive, tribal deities and that true religion, the religion revealed

by God to the whole of humanity since the time of Adam and based on the

belief in one God came into being later. Some evolutionists assume that this

claim has been proven as an historical fact but they are greatly mistaken.

Just as Darwin’s theory of biological evolution is a deception, so is the

theory of the evolution of religion that takes its inspiration from him.

 

How Did the Error of the Evolution of Religions

Come About?

 

About a century ago, when Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’ was still in its

first edition, the idea of evolution gained support among materialists and

atheists. Some thinkers of that period thought that every event in the human

sphere could be explained by evolution. This error states that everything

began from a basic, primitive stage and advanced to perfection.

 

This error was applied in many areas. For example, in the field of

Economics, Marxism claimed that such advancement was inevitable and that

everyone would eventually adopt communism. Experience has shown that this

was only a dream and Marxism’s claims did not reflect reality.

 

In the field of Psychology, Freud said that human beings were a highly

evolved species but ‘psychologically’ their actions are motivated by their

primitive ancestors. This major error has been scientifically refuted by

psychological research. It was shown that the basic supposition of

Freudianism had no scientific foundation.

 

In the same way, the fields of Sociology, Anthropology and History have been

affected by the Theory of Evolution, but knowledge gained from discoveries

in the last century have shown this influence to be negative.

 

The common feature of all these evolutionary theories is that they are

opposed to belief in God. This is the philosophical basis of the mistaken

idea of the evolution of religion. According to the false claims of Herbert

Spencer, a leading proponent of this error, primitive human beings had no

religion. The first religions supposedly began with the worship of the dead.

Other anthropologists that support the deception of the evolution of

religion propose different accounts. Some say that religion has its source

in animism (the attribution of life and spirit to nature); others think that

religion came from totemism (the worship of a symbolic person, group or

object). Another anthropologist, E.B. Taylor, believes that religion

developed through history from animism (the attribution of life to nature),

to manism (ancestor-worship), polytheism (the belief in many gods) and

ending in monotheism (the belief in one God).       

 

This theory was put forward in the 19th century by atheist anthropologists

and, presented in various scenarios, it has been kept alive every since. But

it is nothing more than a deception. As archeological and historical

evidence has shown, contrary to what these scientists have proposed, there

was from earliest times a monotheist religion that God revealed to humanity

through his prophets. But at the same time there have always been deviant,

superstitious beliefs coexisting with monotheism. Just as today there are

people who believe that God is the One and Only deity and lead their lives

according to the religion He has revealed, there are also those who are in

error, worshipping idols of wood and stone, Satan, ancestors as well as

various spirits, animals, the sun, the moon and the stars. And many of these

people are not backward; on the contrary they are very advanced.

 

There have also been those throughout history who have not obeyed the

precepts of the monotheist religions revealed by God and tried to eliminate

moral values. The Qur’an tells us of various individuals who wanted to

include superstitious beliefs and practices in religion and ended up

altering and destroying the true religion revealed to them.

 

Woe to those who write the Book with their own hands and then say “This is

from God” to sell it for a paltry price. Woe to them for what their hands

have written! Woe to them for what they earn! (Qur’an, 2:79)

 

This is the reason why some people who believed in the existence and unity

of God and obeyed His commands abandoned true religion in the course of time

and espoused deviant beliefs and practices. In this way, deviant beliefs and

practices came into being. In other words, contrary to what some have

proposed, there has never been a process of religious evolution; but true

religion was at certain times distorted  an replaced by deviant religions.

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Ys, AKD