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A Materialist Faith
The information we have presented so far shows us that the
theory of evolution is incompatible with scientific findings. The
theory's claim regarding the origin of life is inconsistent with sci-
ence, the evolutionary mechanisms it proposes have no evolution-
ary power, and fossils demonstrate that the required intermediate
forms have never existed. So, it certainly follows that the theory of
evolution 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 history.
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
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 some-
how compel us accept a material explanation of the phe-
nomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by
our a priori adherence to material causes to create an
apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that pro-
duce material explanations, no matter how counter-intu-
itive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated.
Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow

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