Page 182 - What Darwinists Fail To Consider

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That certain scientists are Darwinists may give rise to the erro-
neous impression that the whole scientific world believes in the theory
of evolution, and that it’s therefore a scientific fact. Indeed, a great
many people in the scientific community have been taken in by
Darwinist indoctrination. But their devotion to Darwinism is not the re-
sult of any scientific approach. Since the theory of evolution provides a
basis for materialism and atheism, it leads people to adopt Darwinism
for ideological reasons. Many know full well that when the invalidity
of Darwinism is exposed, materialism will also die, for which reason
they embrace Darwinism with all their might, even though it violates
reason, science and logic.
In an article evaluating claims made by the Marxist zoologist
Richard Lewontin, Phillip Johnson describes how Darwinism is es-
poused out of materialist concerns:
Darwinism is based on an “a priori” commitment to materialism, not on a philo-
sophically neutral assessment of the evidence. Separate the philosophy from the
science, and the proud tower collapses. When the public understands this clear-
ly, Lewontin’s Darwinism will start to move out of the science curriculum and
into the department of intellectual history, where it can gather dust on the shelf
next to Lewontin’s Marxism. 59
Phillip Johnson
Unaware of this, a large section of the public thinks that these peo-
ple espouse evolution out of loyalty to science. But Darwinists’ loyal-
ties actually lie with the dogma of materialism, not with science.
Professor of Biochemistry Michael Behe describes how the scien-
tific community has adopted evolution because of its materialist world
view and how science is portrayed to the public:
So information about the way the universe works almost invariably passes
through a rigid materialistic filter before it reaches the general public. The scien-
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