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will attempt to uphold and defend materialism by trying to support evolution, no

matter what. This is exactly the predicament that evolutionists defending the
theory of evolution find themselves in today.
Interestingly enough, they also confess this fact from time to time. A
well-known geneticist and outspoken evolutionist, Richard C. Lewontin
from Harvard University, confesses that he is "a materialist first and a sci-

entist second" in these words:

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.

Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the
door. 336 The term "a priori" that Lewontin uses here is quite important. This
philosophical term refers to a presupposition not based on any experimental
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knowledge. A thought is "a priori" when you consider it to be correct and accept it as so
even if there is no information available to confirm it. As the evolutionist Lewontin frankly
states, materialism is an "a priori" commitment for evolutionists, who then try to adapt science to this pre-
conception. Since materialism definitely necessitates denying the existence of a Creator, they embrace the

only alternative they have to hand, which is the theory of evolution. It does not matter to such scientists
that evolution has been belied by scientific facts, because they have accepted it "a priori" as true.

This prejudiced behavior leads evolutionists to a belief that "unconscious matter composed itself," which is
contrary not only to science, but also to reason. The concept of "the self-organization of matter," which we ex-
amined in an earlier chapter, is an expression of this.
Evolutionist propaganda, which we constantly come across in the Western media and in well-known and

"esteemed" science magazines, is the outcome of this ideological necessity. Since evolution is considered to be
indispensable, it has been turned into a sacred cow by the circles that set the standards of science.
Some scientists find themselves in a position where they are forced to defend this far-fetched theory, or at
least avoid uttering any word against it, in order to maintain their reputations. Academics in Western countries
have to have articles published in certain scientific journals in order to attain and hold onto their professor-

ships. All of the journals dealing with biology are under the control of evolutionists, and they do not allow any
anti-evolutionist article to appear in them. Biologists, therefore, have to conduct their research under the dom-
ination of this theory. They, too, are part of the materialist order, which regards evolution as an ideological ne-
cessity, which is why they blindly defend all the "impossible coincidences" we have been examining in this
book.

The Definition of the "Scientific Cause"

The German biologist Hoimar von Ditfurth, a prominent evolutionist, is a good example of this bigoted
materialist understanding. After Ditfurth cites an example of the extremely complex composition of life, this is

what he says concerning the question of whether it could have emerged by chance or not:

Is such a harmony that emerged only out of coincidences possible in reality? This is the basic question of the whole
of biological evolution. ...Critically speaking, we can say that somebody who accepts the modern science of nature
has no other alternative than to say "yes," because he aims to explain natural phenomena by means that are under-
standable and tries to derive them from the laws of nature without reverting to supernatural interference. 337

Yes, as Ditfurth states, the materialist scientific approach adopts as its basic principle explaining life by
denying "supernatural interference," i.e., creation. Once this principle is adopted, even the most impossible sce-
narios are easily accepted. It is possible to find examples of this dogmatic mentality in almost all evolutionist

literature. Professor Ali Demirsoy, the well-known advocate of evolutionary theory in Turkey, is just one of

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