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A HISTORICAL LIE: THE STONE AGE

A Materialist Faith
The information we have presented so far shows us that the
theory of evolution is 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 po-
wer, and fossils demonstrate that the required intermediate forms
have never existed. So, it certainly follows that the theory of evoluti-
on 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 scien-
ce. 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 philo-
sophy and adopt Darwinism because it is the only materialist explana-
tion that can be put forward to explain the workings of nature.
Interestingly enough, they also confess this fact from time to ti-
me. 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 causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of
concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how coun-
ter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. More-
over, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine
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