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the idea that matter has existed since beginning of time has been over-
thrown by the Big Bang theory which shows that the universe was cre-
ated from nothingness. The claim that matter organised itself and created
life is the claim that we call "the theory of evolution" -which this book has
been examining-and which has been shown to have collapsed.
However, if someone is determined to believe in materialism and
puts his devotion to materialist philosophy before everything else, then he
will act differently. If he is a materialist first and a scientist second, he will
not abandon materialism when he sees that evolution is disproved by sci-
ence. On the contrary, he will attempt to uphold and defend materialism
by trying to support evolution, no matter what. This is exactly the predica-
ment 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 outspoken evolutionist, Richard C. Lewontin
from Harvard University, confesses that he is "a materialist first and a sci-
entist second" in these words:
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us ac-
cept 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 expla-
nations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the
uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a
Divine [intervention]. 182
The term "a priori" that Lewontin uses here is quite important. This
philosophical term refers to a presupposition not based on any experimen-
tal knowledge. A thought is "a priori" when you consider it to be correct
and accept it as so even if there is no information available to confirm it. As
the evolutionist Lewontin frankly states, materialism is an "a priori" com-
mitment for evolutionists, who then try to adapt science to this preconcep-
tion. 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 such scientists that evolution has
been belied by scientific facts, because they have accepted it "a priori" as
true.
This prejudiced behaviour leads evolutionists to a belief that "uncon-
scious matter composed itself", which is contrary not only to science, but