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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 ad-
herence to material causes to create an apparatus of investiga-
tion 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 can-
not allow a Divine [intervention]... 57

Someone who looks at a seal perceives it in his brain. Similarly, it is in his
brain that he investigates and examines the features of that creature he
sees in his brain. The things he learns reveal to him the perfection of
Allah's creation and the superiority of His wisdom and knowledge.