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A Materialist Faith
The information we have presented so far shows us that the theory

of evolution is a claim evidently at variance with scientific findings. The
theory's claim on the origin of life is inconsistent with science, the
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 an unscientific idea. This is how many ideas such as
the earth-centered universe model have been taken out of the agenda of
science throughout history.
However, 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
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 also confess this fact from time to time. A
well known geneticist and an 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
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 Foot in the door. 52

These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma kept alive
just for the sake of adherence to the materialist philosophy. This dogma