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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 b 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
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 Divine [inter-
vention]... (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, gi-

raffes, tigers, insects, trees, flowers, whales, and human beings) orig-
inated as a result of interactions between matter, such as pouring rain,
lightning flashes, and so on, or out of inanimate matter. This is a pre-
cept contrary to both reason and science. Yet Darwinists continue to