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Love of Allah

A Materialist Faith

The information we have presented so far shows us that the the-
ory of evolution is incompatible with scientific findings. The theo-
ry'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 unscientific idea. This is how many
ideas, such as the Earth-centered universe model, have been taken out
of the agenda of science throughout history.
However, the theory of evolution is kept on the agenda of sci-
ence. 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 be-
lief 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 to explain the workings of na-
ture.
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 explanations,

no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to
the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we
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