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evolutionary mechanisms it proposes have no evolutionary power, and

fossils demonstrate that the intermediate forms required by the theory

never existed. So, it certainly follows that the theory of evolution

should be pushed aside as unscientific. That is how many theories,

such as the earth-centered universe model, have been taken out of the

agenda of science throughout history.

But to the contrary, the theory of evolution is pressingly kept on

the agenda of science. Some people even try to represent criticisms

directed against the theory as an "attack on science." Why?

The reason is that the theory of evolution is an indispensable

dogmatic belief for some circles. These circles are blindly devoted to

the materialist philosophy and adopt Darwinism because it is the only

materialist explanation that can be put forward for the workings of

nature. Interestingly enough, they even admit this fact from time to

time. A well-known geneticist and outspoken evolutionist, 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 somehow compel

us to 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,

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