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our a priori adherence to material causes to create an ap-
paratus of investigation and a set of concepts 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 Foot
in the door. 19

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 in-
sists that millions of different living species (e.g., birds, fish, gi-
raffes, tigers, insects, trees, flowers, whales, and human beings)
originated as a result of the interactions between matter such as
pouring rain, lightning flashes, and so on, out of inanimate

A person who is observing the running horses supposes that she is
watching the horses before her eyes. However, each of these horses ac-
tually forms in the center of vision at the back of the brain. The pertinent
question is this: Who is it that takes pleasure from watching the horses,
if it cannot be the brain, which is made of lipid and protein?

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