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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 ma-
terialist 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 ad-
herence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation
and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no mat-
ter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the unini-
tiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow
a Divine [intervention]... 92
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 be-
ing. 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 inani-
mate matter. This is a precept contrary both to reason and sci-
ence. Yet Darwinists continue to ignorantly defend it just so as
not to acknowledge, in their own eyes, the evident existence of
Allah.

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar