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such as the geocentric model of the universe, have been taken out of
the realm of science throughout history.
However, the theory of evolution is persistently kept on the agen-
da of science. Some people even try to represent criticisms directed
against it as an "attack on science" and to suppress adversatives. Why?
Because this theory is an indispensable dogmatic belief in some
circles. These circles are blindly devoted to a 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 evolutionist, Richard C.
Lewontin from Harvard University, confesses that he is "first and fore-
most 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 mat-
ter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. More-
over, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine [intervention]...
(Richard Lewontin, "The Demon-Haunted World," The New York Review
of Books, January 9, 1997, p. 28)

These are explicit statements demonstrating that Darwinism is a
dogma kept alive just for the sake of adherence to materialism. This
dogma maintains that there is no being except for matter. Therefore, it
argues that inanimate, unconscious matter brought life into being. It
claims that millions of different living species (e.g., birds, fish, giraffes,
tigers, insects, trees, flowers, whales, and human beings) originated as
a result of interactions between matter, such as pouring rain, lightning
flashes, and so on, or out of inanimate matter. This is a precept contrary

to both reason and science. Yet Darwinists continue to ignorantly
defend it just so as not to acknowledge, in their own eyes, the evident
existence of God.