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ic 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 evolution-
ist, 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

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