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40 Materialism

fered to our young sters in our sec ond - erned com plete ly by phys i cal law.
ary and high schools and taught in Physical law is the on ly law gov ern ing
uni ver si ties as the sole sci en tif ic ex pla - our de sires, our hopes, our eth ics, our
na tion of life and its codes. goals, and our des ti nies. Matter and
en er gy must be our pri ma ry fo cus, the
If a rea son a ble ma te ri al is tic view of bi -
ob ject of all of our de sires and am bi -
o gen e sis is to be taught as a fact, the
tions. Specifically, this means that our
prob lem of pro gram ming, sim u la tion,
lives must be fo cused on ac quir ing ma -
lan guage, code and trans la tion of a
te ri al goods (in clud ing bod ies), or at
code-ob tained spon ta ne ous ly from
least re ar rang ing or ex chang ing them,
non code-must be square ly faced. For
in or der to pro duce the max i mum ma -
mat ter, which is known to pos sess nei -
te ri al sat is fac tion and pleas ure. We
ther plans, in tel li gence, nor pro gram -
must ex pend all of our en er gy in this
ming, al leged by the ma te ri al ists to
quest, for there can be no oth er goal.
have con jured them all up like a rab bit
And in all of this, we have no choice,
out of a hat. 34
be cause we are to tal ly gov erned by
The em i nent bi ol o gist Hubert
phys i cal law. We may feel trapped by
Yockey agrees:
these be liefs and de sires, but we can not
Faith in the in fal li ble and com pre hen - shake them. They to tal ly dom i nate us.
sive doc trines of di a lec tic ma te ri al ism
A suc cinct, per son al ized, sum ma ry
plays a cru cial role in or i gin of life sce -
state ment of ma te ri al ist phi los o phy is,
nar i os. . . That life must ex ist some -
"I am a body." 36
where in the so lar sys tem on ‘suit a ble
This ma te ri al ist dog ma un der lies
plan ets else where' is wide ly and te na -
cious ly be lieved in spite of lack of ev i - the ev o lu tion ist prop a gan da that
dence or even abun dant ev i dence to the one con stant ly en coun ters in some of
con tra ry. 35 the prom i nent me dia or gan i za tions
and well-known jour nals, as a re sult
Stanley Sobottka, a pro fes sor of
of such ide o log i cal and phil o soph i -
phys ics from Virginia University,
cal re quire ments. Since ev o lu tion is
de scribes the dis tort ed na ture of ma -
cru cial in ide o log i cal terms, it is ac -
te ri al ism:
cept ed with out any de bate by the
The wide spread be lief in ma te ri al ism
ma te ri al ist cir cles that de ter mine the
has pro found ef fects in our lives and in
stand ards of sci ence.
our so ci e ty. If we be lieve this way, we
must con clude that ev ery thing, in clud - Evolution is ac tu al ly not a the o ry
ing our selves and all of life, is gov - that emerged as a re sult of sci en tif ic
re search. On the con tra ry, the the o ry

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