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And by doing so, they commit a serious error. As their own admis-

sions show, evolutionists espouse their theory in violation of science.
They present evolution as the scientific foundation of the ideology they
insist on, which is materialism.
Fred Alan Wolf, a particle physicist at the University of California,
describes, as a scientist himself, what the scientific approach should be:
My major concern, coming out of the ranks of science, has been my own
arrogance. How arrogant I was, to put down other people’s ideas that
didn’t agree with my scientific view. When I went around the world and
spent time with indigenous peoples and tribes, I realized that my arro-
gance just didn’t fit in. Like the man in the story by H. G. Wells, I thought
that in the country of scientifically blind, the one-eyed man would be
king. In fact, I was the one who was blind. I was intellectually incapaci-
tated. As long as I held on to my scientific view, I couldn’t see. I thought
I saw everything; I didn’t see anything. So I had to give up much of what
I previously held as real, in order to see what these people saw. And when
I was finally able to attain this new vision, it totally changed my view of
science. And I began seeing science as a tool—not the be–all and end-all
of the universe, but a tool to help us begin to dig deeper into the nature
of what it means to be a human being. I don’t think we’ve arrived at that
point yet. I don’t think we’re quite awake yet. I think we are all still
asleep—dreaming, hoping, wishing—mechanically relying on our intel-
lect to lead us out of the morass in which we constantly find ourselves.
When we can use our heart and our spirit as well as our brain, that’s when
science will begin to adapt to a new world order. 2

Materialist philosophy regards matter as absolute. According to that
definition, matter has existed forever, and everything that exists consists
of matter alone. As that logic requires, materialism has opposed belief in
Allah (God) and the true religions ever since the most ancient times.
Yet when examined, materialism emerges as a philosophy devoid of
any scientific evidence, and one incompatible with the truth.
The way to test the truth of any philosophy is through investigating

that philosophy's claims regarding science. Using scientific methodology,
we can investigate the claim of materialism. We can investigate whether