Page 101 - Islam: The Religion of Ease

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

However, the theory of evolution is kept on the agenda of sci-
ence. Some people even try to represent criticisms directed
against it as an "attack on science." Why?
The reason is that this theory is an indispensable dogmatic
belief for some circles. These circles are blindly devoted to ma-
terialist 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 com-
pel us accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but,
on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to ma-
terial causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of con-
cepts that produce material explanations, no matter how
counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated.
Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine
[intervention]... 20

These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma
kept alive just for the sake of adherence to materialism. This
dogma maintains that there is no being save matter. Therefore, it
argues that inanimate, unconscious matter created life. 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 inanimate mat-
ter. This is a precept contrary both to reason and science. Yet
Darwinists continue to defend it just so as "not to allow a Divine
Foot in the door."
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