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THE DECEPTION OF EVOLUTION
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A Materialist Faith

The information we have presented so far shows us that the the-
ory of evolution is a incompatible with scientific findings. The the-
ory's claim regarding the origin of life is inconsistent with science,
the evolutionary mechanisms it proposes have no evolutionary
power, and fossils demonstrate that the required intermediate forms
have never existed. So, it certainly follows that the theory of evolu-
tion should be pushed aside as an unscientific idea. This is how
many ideas, such as the Earth-centered universe model, have been
taken out of the agenda of science throughout history.
However, the theory of evolution is kept on the agenda of sci-
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 ex-
planation 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 com-
pel us accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but,

on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to ma-
terial causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of con-
cepts that produce material explanations, no matter how
counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated.
Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine
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