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dogmatic belief for some circles. These circles are blind-
ly devoted 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
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 caus-
es 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 uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute,
so we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. 37
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, uncon-
scious matter created life. It insists that millions of dif-
ferent living species (e.g., birds, fish, giraffes, tigers,
insects, trees, flowers, whales, and human beings) origi-
nated as a result of the interactions 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 defend
it just so as "not to allow a Divine Foot in the door."