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is "first and foremost a materialist and then a scientist":
It is not that the methods and institutions of science
somehow compel us accept a material explanation of
the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we
are forced by our a priori adherence to material caus-
es to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of
concepts that produce material explanations, no mat-
ter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying
to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is
absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the
door. 22

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 created life. It
insists that millions of different living species (e.g., birds, fish,
giraffes, tigers, insects, trees, flowers, whales, and human
beings) originated as a result of the interactions between mat-
ter such as pouring rain, lightning flashes, and so on, out of inan-
imate matter. This is a precept contrary both to reason and sci-
ence. Yet Darwinists continue to defend it just so as "not to
allow a Divine Foot in the door."
Anyone who does not look at the origin of living beings
with a materialist prejudice will see this evident truth: All living
beings are works of a Creator, Who is All-Powerful, All-Wise,
and All-Knowing. This Creator is Allah, Who created the whole
universe from non-existence, designed it in the most perfect
form, and fashioned all living beings.