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DARWINISM REFUTED

So the question becomes one of why the materialist point of view is
false. One method of testing whether a philosophy is true or false is to
investigate the claims it makes about science by using scientific methods.
For instance, a philosopher in the tenth century could have claimed that
there was a divine tree on the surface of the moon and that all living things
actually grew on the branches of this huge tree like fruit, and then fell off
onto the earth. Some people might have found this philosophy attractive
and believed in it. But in the twentyfirst century, at a time when man has
managed to walk on the moon, it is no longer possible to seriously hold
such a belief. Whether such a tree exists there or not can be determined by
scientific methods, that is, by observation and experiment.
We can therefore investigate by means of scientific methods the
materialist claim that matter has existed for all eternity and that this
matter can organize itself without a supramaterial Creator and cause life
to begin. When we do this, we see that materialism has already collapsed,
because the idea that matter has existed since the beginning of time has
been overthrown by the Big Bang theory which shows that the universe
was created from nothingness. The claim that matter organized itself and
created life is the claim that we call the theory of evolution—which this
book has been examining—and which has been shown to have collapsed.
However, if someone is determined to believe in materialism and
puts his devotion to materialist philosophy before everything else, then he
will act differently. If he is a materialist first and a scientist second, he will
not abandon materialism when he sees that evolution is disproved by
science. On the contrary, he will attempt to uphold and defend
materialism by trying to support evolution, no matter what. This is exactly
the predicament that evolutionists defending the theory of evolution find
themselves in today.
Interestingly enough, they also confess this fact from time to time. A
well-known geneticist and outspoken evolutionist, Richard C. Lewontin
from Harvard University, confesses that he is "a materialist first and a
scientist second" in these words:
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

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