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dom—the superior wisdom of the All-Powerful God, Who rules all of nature… In short, life and all living

things were created. This is not a dogmatic belief like materialism, but a plain fact revealed by scientific obser-
vation and experiment.
We see that this fact comes as a terrible shock for scientists who are used to believing in materialism, and
that materialism is a science. See how this shock is described by Michael Behe, one of the most important sci-
entists to stand against the theory of evolution in the world today:

The resulting realization that life was designed by an intelligence is a shock to us in the twentieth century who have

gotten used to thinking of life as the result of simple natural laws. But other centuries have had their shocks, and
there is no reason to suppose that we should escape them. 341

Mankind has been freed from such dogmas as that the world is flat, or that it is the center of the universe.
And it is now being freed from the materialist and evolutionist dogma that life came about by itself.
The duty that befalls a true scientist in this respect, is to do away with materialist dogma and evaluate the
origin of life and living things with the honesty and objectivity befitting a real scientist. A real scientist must
come to terms with the "shock," and not tie himself to outdated nineteenth-century dogmas and defend impos-
sible scenarios.

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