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many ideas, such as the Earth-centered universe model, have
been taken out of the agenda of science throughout history.
However, the theory of evolution is kept on the agenda of
science. Some people even try to represent criticisms directed
against it as an "attack on science." Why?
The reason is that this theory is an indispensable dog-
matic belief for some circles. These circles are blindly devoted
to materialist philosophy and adopt Darwinism because it is
the only materialist explanation that can be put forward to
explain the workings of nature.
Interestingly enough, they also confess this fact from time
to time. A well-known geneticist and an outspoken evolu-
tionist, Richard C. Lewontin from Harvard University, con-
fesses that he is "first and foremost a materialist and then a
scientist":
It is not that the methods and institutions of science some
how compel us accept a material explanation of the phe-
nomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by
our a priori adherence to material causes to create an ap-
paratus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce
material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive,
no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover,
that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine
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These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma
kept alive just for the sake of adherence to materialism. This
dogma maintains that there is no being save matter.
Therefore, it argues that inanimate, unconscious matter cre-
ated life. It insists that millions of different living species
(e.g., birds, fish, giraffes, tigers, insects, trees, flowers,
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