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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

A Materialist Faith

The information we have presented so far shows us that the
theory of evolution is incompatible with scientific findings.
The theory's claim regarding the origin of life is inconsistent
with science, the evolutionary mechanisms it proposes have no

evolutionary power, and fossils demonstrate that the required
intermediate forms have never existed. So, it certainly follows
that the theory of evolution should be pushed aside as an un-
scientific idea. This is how many ideas, such as the Earth-cen-
tered universe model, have been taken out of the agenda of sci-
ence 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 dogmatic
belief for some circles. These circles are blindly devoted to ma-
terialist philosophy and adopt Darwinism because it is the on-
ly 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 evolutionist,

Richard C. Lewontin from Harvard University, confesses that
he 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 causes to create an apparatus of investi-
gation and a set of concepts that produce material explana-
tions, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mysti-

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