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However, the theory of evolution is pressingly kept on
the agenda of science. Some people even try to represent
criticisms directed against the theory as an "attack on
science." Why?
The reason is that the theory of evolution is an
indispensable dogmatic 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 for 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 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
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These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma
kept alive just for the sake of adherence to the materialist
philosophy. 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; for instance, birds, fish, giraffes, tigers, insects, trees,
flowers, whales and human beings originated as a result of
the interactions between matter such as the pouring rain, the