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THE MERCY OF BELIEVERS

A Materialist Faith

The information we have presented so far shows us that
the theory of evolution is a claim evidently at variance with
scientific findings. The theory's claim on the origin of life is
inconsistent with science, the evolutionary mechanisms it
proposes have no evolutionary power, and fossils demon-
strate that the intermediate forms required by the theory
never existed. So, it certainly follows that the theory of evo-
lution 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 his-
tory.
However, the theory of evolution is pressingly kept on the
agenda of science. Some people even try to represent criti-
cisms directed against the theory as an "attack on science."
Why?
The reason is that the theory of evolution is an indispen-
sable dogmatic 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 for the workings of nature.
Interestingly enough, they also confess this fact from time
to time. A well known geneticist and an outspoken evolu-
tionist, Richard C. Lewontin from Harvard University, con-
fesses 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