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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 135

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 evolu-
tionist, Richard C. Lewontin from Harvard University, con-
fesses 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 unini-
tiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we can-
not allow a Divine [intervention]... 20
These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a
dogma kept alive just for the sake of adherence to material-
ism. 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 inter-
actions 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 igno-
rantly defend it just so as not to acknowledge, in their own
eyes, the evident existence of Allah.