AN OVERVIEW OF MODERN ATHEISM
Spirit of Islam, May 2020, p. 23
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
Houses were built and cities developed with the help of modern technology, and a modern lifestyle could be seen everywhere. This material Paradise in the wake of modern civilization has yet to be completed. But the latest research has proved that it is impossible to build Paradise on Earth. Moreover, further studies in the physical sciences have shown that the law of entropy applies to our world. That means in submission to this law, the world is irrevocably moving towards its end. A day will come when it will become extinct. In the twenty-first century, further research has been carried out which demonstrates that this period of the world’s demise has come very close. Now it is believed that soon, all those resources will be destroyed or exhausted with the help of which the supposed material ‘Paradise’ is being constructed. In other words, soon, those ‘causes’ will no longer be there on the basis of which the plans for a material Paradise were conceived. Darwinism, or Organic Evolution For thousands of years, man believed that all living species, including man, were created by God—that it was the Lord of the world who brought into existence all the living species by directly creating them. But Charles Darwin (d. 1802) supposedly managed to find a ‘cause’ here as well. According to him, this ‘cause’—‘natural selection’—was responsible for bringing into existence all living species. That is, in the biological process resulting from various physical causes, many living species continued to evolve one from another. That is to say, all living species, including man, were brought into existence by a material cause rather than a non-material God. This ‘cause’ discovered by Darwin has never been scientifically proven. It is only a supposition or a theory. Even biologists have given it the status of a working hypothesis, rather than an established fact. Darwin himself had doubts about this theory in the last stage of his life. That is why he died in a state of frustration. In spite of this flaw, Darwin’s theory gained general acceptance in modern academic circles. Even today this unsubstantiated theory is taught in universities all over the world. Marxism Another such example is provided by Marxism. Karl Marx (d. 1883) tried to apply this principle to the field of society and the economy. He constructed the theory that the cause of the revolutionary changes

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