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da of science. Some people even try to represent criti-
cisms directed 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
devoted to 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 investi-
gation and a set of concepts that produce material explana-
tions, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mysti-
fying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is
absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine [intervention]... 116
These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a
dogma kept alive just for the sake of adherence to mate-
rialism. This dogma maintains that there is no being save
matter. Therefore, it argues that inanimate, unconscious
matter brought life into being. It insists that millions of
different living species (e.g., birds, fish, giraffes, tigers,
insects, trees, flowers, whales, and human beings) origi-
nated as a result of the interactions between matter such
as pouring rain, lightning flashes, and so on, out of inan-

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