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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 kept on the agenda of science.
Some people even try to represent criticisms directed against it as an
"attack on science." Why?
The reason is that this theory 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 to explain 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 Divine
[intervention]... 30
These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma kept
alive just for the sake of adherence to materialism. This dogma
maintains that there is no being save matter. Therefore, it argues that
inanimate, unconscious matter brought life into being. It insists that
millions of different living species (e.g., birds, fish, giraffes, tigers,

insects, trees, flowers, whales, and human beings) originated as a
result of the interactions between matter such as pouring rain,
lightning flashes, and so on, out of inanimate matter. This is a precept
contrary both to reason and science. Yet Darwinists continue to