POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

The Challenge of The Qur’an ~ 336 ~ Truth is not arrived at purely through experience and reasoning. Human beings, in addition to making inadvertent and unwitting errors (for the simple reason that they are humans, and not God!) are all too prone to make deliberate misrepresentations of facts when they are motivated by the base emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, revenge and fear. One such notorious instance in which the entire western scientific establishment were made dupes of for about half a century was that of the “discovery” of the Piltdown Man, a supposedly “missing link” (according to the evolutionists) between man and his ancestor, the ape. In 1912, the English newspapers trumpeted the news that a fragment of an ancient skull, half ape and half man dating back to some nebulous pre-historic period, had been found at Piltdown, thus providing material evidence which confirmed Darwin’s theory of evolution. This Piltdown man achieved instant popularity. The name appeared in standard textbooks such as R.S. Lull’s Organic Evolution. Leading intellectuals