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THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION: A MATERIALISTIC LIABILITY

he information we have presented throughout this book shows us that the theory
T of evolution has no scientific basis and that, on the contrary, the claims of evolution
manifestly conflict with scientific discoveries. In other words, the power that sustains
evolution is not science. Evolution can be defended by some "scientists", but there must
be another fundamental agent at work.
That other agent is materialist philosophy.
So the question becomes one of whether the materialist point of view is correct. A
method of testing whether a philosophy is true or false is to investigate the claims of that
philosophy, which are related to science by using scientific methods. For instance, a
philosopher in the 10th century could claim that there was a divine tree on the surface of
the moon and that all living things actually grew on the branches of this huge tree like
fruits and then fell on to earth. Some people might find this philosophy attractive and
believe in it. But in the 20th century, at a time when people have managed to walk on the
moon, it is not possible to put forward such a philosophy. Whether such a tree exists there
or not can be determined by scientific methods, that is, by observation and experiment.
We can therefore investigate by means of scientific methods the materialist claim: that
is, that matter has existed for all eternity and that this matter can organise itself without
a super-material Creator and cause life to begin. When we do this, we see that material-
DARWINISM AND MATERIALISM

The only reason that Darwin's theory is
still defended despite its obvious refuta-
tion by science is the close link between
that theory and materialism. Darwin
applied materialist philosophy to the
natural sciences and the advocates of
this philosophy, Marxists being foremost
among them, go on defending
Darwinism no matter what.
One of the most famous contemporary champions of the the-
ory of evolution, the biologist Douglas Futuyma, wrote: "Together
with Marx's materialistic theory of history… Darwin's theory of Karl Marx
evolution was a crucial plank in the platform of mechanism
and materialism." This is a very clear admission of why the theo-
1
ry of evolution is really so important to its defenders.
Another famous evolutionist, the paleontologist Stephen J.
Gould said: "Darwin applied a consistent philosophy of materi-
2
alism to his interpretation of nature". Leon Trotsky, one of the
masterminds of the Russian Communist Revolution along with
Lenin, commented: "The discovery by Darwin was the highest tri-
umph of the dialectic in the whole field of organic matter.". 3
However, science has shown that Darwinism was not a victory for
materialism but rather a sign of that philosophy's overthrow.
Leon Trotsky
1 Douglas Futuyma, Evolutionary Biology, 2nd ed., Sunderland, MA: Sinauer, 1986, p. 3
2 Alan Woods and Ted Grant, "Marxism and Darwinism", Reason in Revolt: Marxism and
Modern Science, London, 1993
3 Alan Woods and Ted Grant. "Marxism and Darwinism", London, 1993