Without the hypothesized atmosphere and medium for life's self-assembly, materialist assumptions stand without any basis in reality.

没有假设的大气层与生命自我装备的介质，物质主义者的假定是没有实际根基的。

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For the claim that there is a distinctively Islamic view of economic life, morally superior to but no less efficient than anything offered by the decadent, materialist West, does not with one possible exception stand up to examination.

ECONOMIST: A survey of Islam and the west