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16 CONFESSIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS

or not matter has always existed, whether atoms and molecules can orga-

nize themselves in the absence of a super-material Creator, and whether
or not they can give rise to life. When we do so, we see that materialism
has effectively collapsed.
The idea that matter has existed for all time was demolished by the
Big Bang theory, which indicated that the universe came into being from
nothing. The claim that matter can organize itself-was rendered invalid

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with crystal clarity by scientific discoveries during the 20 century.
Yet contemporary materialists do not follow such a rational and sci-
entific course. They have conditioned themselves never to abandon their
materialist beliefs, no matter what the cost. These people are "materialists
first, scientists second". They refuse to abandon their belief in evolution,
even though they clearly see that even their own experiments and re-
search refute it. Instead, they try to keep materialism alive by supporting
evolution in any way necessary.

Richard Lewontin, a well-known geneticist and evolutionist from
Harvard University, confesses that he is a materialist first, and a scientist
second:
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us
accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the con-
trary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to cre-
ate an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce ma-
terial explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mys-
tifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we
cannot allow a Divine [intervention]… 3
The philosophical term "a priori" that Lewontin uses here is highly
significant. Latin for "from the beginning," it refers to any root assumption
accepted as a given. If you believe in the truth of an idea without question
and assume it to be accurate, then that idea is a priori. This is how evolu-
tionists seek to adapt science to their own preconceptions. Since material-

ists absolutely reject the existence of a Creator, their only alternative is to
cling tightly to the theory of evolution.