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PORTENTS AND FEATURES OF THE MAHDI'S COMING

i cisms direct ed against it as an "attack on sci ence."
Why?
The rea son is that this the o ry is an indis pen sa ble
dog mat ic belief for some cir cles. These cir cles are
blind ly devot ed to mate ri al ist phi los o phy and adopt
Darwinism because it is the only mate ri al ist expla na -
tion that can be put for ward to explain the work ings of
nature.
Interestingly enough, they also con fess this fact from
time to time. A well-known genet i cist and an out spo -
ken evo lu tion ist, Richard C. Lewontin from Harvard
University, con fess es that he is "first and fore most a
mate ri al ist and then a sci en tist":
It is not that the meth ods and insti tu tions of sci ence
some how com pel us accept a mate ri al expla na tion
of the phe nom e nal world, but, on the con tra ry, that
we are forced by our a pri o ri adher ence to mate ri al
caus es to cre ate an appa ra tus of inves ti ga tion and a
set of con cepts that pro duce mate ri al expla na tions,
no mat ter how coun ter-intu i tive, no mat ter how mys -
ti fy ing to the unin i ti at ed. Moreover, that mate ri al ism
is abso lute, so we can not allow a Divine [inter ven -
tion]... 19
These are explicit state ments that Darwinism is a
dogma kept alive just for the sake of adher ence to mate -
ri al ism. This dogma main tains that there is no being
save mat ter. Therefore, it argues that inan i mate, uncon -

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