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intelligent design for the dialogue and necessity; but we must
concede that there are presently no detailed Darwinian ac-
counts of the evolution of any biochemical system, only a va-
riety of wishful speculations. 40

Harold admits that the theory of evolution cannot account
for the emergence of life, although he still denies the existence of
any Sublime Intelligence that created the order in the universe
and living things—in other words, God. He says this would be a
violation of his "principles." The principles he refers to are mate-
rialist ones, very common in the scientific world.
Phillip Johnson described how the theory of evolution is
wielded as a weapon against religious belief:
The leaders of science see themselves as locked in a desperate
battle against religious fundamentalists… Darwinism plays an
indispensable role in the war against fundamentalism. For that
reason, the scientific organizations are devoted to protecting
Darwinism rather than testing it, and the rules of scientific in-
vestigation have been shaped to help them succeed. 41
As Johnson states, evolutionist scientists have established a
kind of dictatorship in academia and universities. They transform

some universities into Darwinist training academies, producing
students who imagine that materialist philosophy is science. They
think that people with religious beliefs should not enjoy academ-
ic careers. One of the most prominent examples of this in Turkey,
where the evolutionist Professor Ali Demirsoy makes clear the
prejudiced evolutionist perspective by saying things along the
lines of, "If a scientist believes in God in any way, he has no place
at a university. I would expel a believer in God from university."
Most of the scientific world, especially institutions and acad-
emies where materialist thinking reigns, react very strongly when