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refuge in Him, for He squeezes the entire universe in a pitch-
dark place of a few cubic centimeters in a three-dimensional,
colored, shadowy, and luminous form.

A Materialist Faith
The information we have presented so far shows us that
the theory of evolution is incompatible with scientific find-
ings. The theory's claim regarding the origin of life is incon-
sistent with science, the evolutionary mechanisms it proposes
have no evolutionary power, and fossils demonstrate that the

required intermediate forms have never existed. So, it cer-
tainly 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 science. Some people even try to represent criticisms di-

rected against it as an "attack on science." Why?
The reason is that this theory is an indispensable dog-
matic belief for some circles. These circles are blindly de-
voted to materialist philosophy and adopt Darwinism be-
cause it is the only materialist explanation that can be put for-
ward 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 com-