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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 causes 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 [inter-
vention]... (Richard Lewontin, “The Demon-Haunted World,” The New York
Review of Books, January 9, 1997, p. 28)

These are explicit statements demonstrating that Darwinism is a
dogma kept alive just for the sake of adherence to materialism. This
dogma maintains that there is no being except for matter. Therefore,
it argues that inanimate, unconscious matter brought life into being.
It claims that millions of different living species (e.g., birds, fish, gi-
raffes, tigers, insects, trees, flowers, whales, and human beings) orig-
inated as a result of interactions between matter, such as pouring rain,
lightning flashes, and so on, or out of inanimate matter. This is a pre-
cept contrary to both reason and science. Yet Darwinists continue to
ignorantly defend it just so as not to acknowledge, in their own eyes,
the evident existence of God.
Anyone who does not look at the origin of living beings with a
materialist prejudice sees this evident truth: All living beings are
works of a Creator, Who is All-Powerful, All-Wise, and All-Know-
ing. This Creator is God, Who created the whole universe from non-
existence, in the most perfect form, and fashioned all living beings.

THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION:
THE MOST POTENT SPELL IN THE WORLD

It should be openly stated first and foremost that 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