ABSTRACT
In 1990, in his weekly column in an Egyptian newspaper, Muhammad al-Ghazali wrote that he and his colleagues had noted a multifaceted conspiracy to lead people astray from recognizing the existence of Allah while learning modern sciences. This conspiracy, which he believed reveals ignorance rather than knowledge, is the result of materialist science that was developed by people who were the least respectful of religion because the religion they were familiar with -Christianity- was the least respectful of the human mind. Al-Ghazali's remarks expose an inherent dissonance in the modernist-apologetic concept of scientific freedom. More than any other scientific theory, the treatment of Darwin's theory of evolution exposes the fragility of the modernist-apologetic promise for a revelation-based social order that guarantees full freedom for scientists who present "proven" facts. In it's almost four decades of existence, Rashid Rida's al-Manar served as the primary venue propagating the idea that the theory of evolution is reconcilable with the Quran.
