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agenda of science. Some people even try to represent criticisms di-
rected against it as an "attack on science" and to suppress adversa-
tives. Why?

Because this theory is an indispensable dogmatic belief in some
circles. These circles are blindly devoted to a materialist philoso-
phy and adopt Darwinism because it is the only materialist expla-
nation 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 ac-
cept 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 ex-
planations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to
the uninitiated. Moreover, 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.
LOVE IN THE GOSPEL Therefore, it argues that inanimate, unconscious matter brought life
This dogma maintains that there is no being except for matter.

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
94 Darwinists continue to ignorantly defend it just so as not to ac-