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DAR WIN ISM AND MA TE RI AL ISM

he only reason that Darwin's theory is still defended despite its obvious
refutation by science is the close link between that theory and materialism.
T Darwin applied materialist philosophy to the natural sciences and the ad-
vocates of this philosophy, Marxists being foremost among them, go on defend-
ing Darwinism no matter what.
One of the most famous contemporary champions of the theory of evolu-
tion, the biologist Douglas Futuyma, wrote: "Together with Marx's materialistic
theory of history… Darwin's theory of evolution was a crucial plank in the plat-
form of mechanism and materialism." This is a very clear admission of why the
theory of evolution is really so important to its defenders. 1
Another famous evolutionist, the paleontologist Stephen J. Gould said:
"Darwin applied a consistent philosophy of materialism to his interpretation of
2
nature". Leon Trotsky, one of the masterminds of the Russian Communist Rev-
olution along with Lenin, commented: "The discovery by Darwin was the highest
3
triumph of the dialectic in the whole field of organic matter." However, science
has shown that Darwinism was not a victory for materialism but rather a sign of
that philosophy's overthrow.
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

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Materialist Confessions
The German biologist Hoimar von Ditfurth, a prominent evolutionist,
is a good example of this bigoted materialist understanding. After Ditfurth
cites an example of the extremely complex composition of life, this is what
he says concerning the question of whether it could have emerged by
chance or not:
Is such a harmony that emerged only out of coincidences possible in reality?
This is the basic question of the whole of biological evolution. Answering this