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Signs of Jesus’ (pbuh)
Second Coming

ence. 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 phi-
losophy and adopt Darwinism because it is the only materialist expla-
nation 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 pro-
duce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter
how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is ab-
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solute, so we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.
These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma kept
alive just for the sake of adherence to materialism. This dogma main-