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The Evolution Misconception

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