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A Materialist Faith

The information we have presented so far shows us that the theo-
ry of evolution is incompatible with scientific findings. The theory’s
claim regarding the origin of life is inconsistent with science, the evo-
lutionary mechanisms it proposes have no evolutionary power, and
fossils demonstrate that intermediate forms the theory necessitates
have never existed. So, these certainly require that the theory of evo-
lution be pushed aside as a disproven theory. This is how many ideas,
such as the geocentric model of the universe, have been taken out of

the realm of science throughout history.
However, the theory of evolution is persistently kept on the agen-
da of science. Some people even try to represent criticisms directed
against it as an “attack on science” and to suppress adversatives. Why?
Because this theory is an indispensable dogmatic belief in some
circles. These circles are blindly devoted to a 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 fore-
most 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 mat-
ter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. More-
over, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine [intervention]...

(Richard Lewontin, “The Demon-Haunted World,” The New York Review
of Books, January 9, 1997, p. 28)

These are explicit statements demonstrating that Darwinism is a
dogma kept alive just for the sake of adherence to materialism. This