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THE MIRACLE IN THE MOSQUITO

"first and foremost a materialist and then a scientist":
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel
us accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the
contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material caus-
es to create an apparatus 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 insists that mil-
lions of different living species (e.g., birds, fish, giraffes, tigers, in-
sects, trees, flowers, whales, and human beings) originated as a re-
sult of the interactions between matter such as pouring rain, light-
ning flashes, and so on, out of inanimate matter. This is a precept
contrary both to reason and science. Yet Darwinists continue to de-
fend it just so as "not to allow a Divine Foot in the door."
Anyone who does not look at the origin of living beings with

a materialist prejudice will see this evident truth: All living beings
are works of a Creator, Who is All-Powerful, All-Wise, and All-
Knowing. This Creator is God, Who created the whole universe
from non-existence, designed it in the most perfect form, and fash-
ioned all living beings.

The Theory of Evolution: The Most Potent Spell

in the World
Anyone free of prejudice and the influence of any particular
ideology, who uses only his or her reason and logic, will clearly
understand that belief in the theory of evolution, which brings to
mind the superstitions of societies with no knowledge of science

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