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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 99

The reason is that this theory is an indispensable dog-
matic belief for some circles. These circles are blindly devot-
ed 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 evolution-
ist, 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 investi-
gation and a set of concepts that produce material explana-
tions, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mysti-
fying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is
absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine [intervention]... 20
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 liv-
ing 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, light-
ning flashes, and so on, out of inanimate matter. This is a
precept contrary both to reason and science. Yet Darwinists
continue to ignorantly defend it just so as not to acknowl-
edge, in their own eyes, the evident existence of Allah.