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ism has already collapsed, because the idea that matter has always existed since eternity
has been overthrown by the Big Bang theory which shows that universe was created
from nothingness. The claim that matter organised itself and brought about life is the
claim that we call "the theory of evolution"–the one that this book has been examining
and has also shown to have collapsed.
However, if one is determined to believe in materialism and puts his devotion to the
materialist philosophy before everything else, then he does not act like this. If he is "fore-
most a materialist and then a scientist", he does not abandon materialism when he sees
that evolution is belied by science. On the contrary, he attempts to uphold and save mate-
rialism by trying to support evolution no matter what. This is exactly the predicament
that evolutionists defending the theory of evolution find themselves in today.
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 "foremost a materialist and then a scientist" with these words:
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 inves-
tigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how
counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that mate-
rialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. 71
The term "a priori" that Lewontin uses here is quite important. This philosophical
term refers to a presupposition not based on any experimental knowledge. A thought is
"a priori" when you consider it as right and accept it to be so even if there is no informa-
tion available about the correctness of that thought. As evolutionist Lewontin expresses
frankly, materialism is an "a priori" given for evolutionists and they try to adjust science
to this given. Since materialism definitely necessitates denying the existence of a Creator,
they embrace the only alternative they have in hand, which is the theory of evolution. It
does not matter to them that evolution has been belied by scientific facts; such scientists
have accepted it "a priori" as correct.
This prejudiced conduct leads evolutionists to a belief that "unconscious matter com-
posed itself" which is contrary not only to science but also to reason. Professor of chem-
istry from New York University and a DNA expert Robert Shapiro, as we have quoted
before, explains this belief of evolutionists and the materialist dogma lying at its base as
follows:
Another evolutionary principle is therefore needed to take us across the gap from
mixtures of simple natural chemicals to the first effective replicator. This principle has

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