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with science, the evolutionary mechanisms it proposes have no evolu-
tionary power, and fossils demonstrate that the intermediate forms
required by the theory never existed. So, it certainly follows that the

theory of evolution 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 pressingly kept on the
agenda of science. Some people even try to represent criticisms di-
rected against the theory as an "attack on science." Why?

The reason is that the theory of evolution is an indispens-
able dogmatic belief for some circles. These circles are blindly de-
voted to materialist philosophy and adopt Darwinism because it is the
only materialist explanation that can be put forward for 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 causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set
of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how
counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated.
Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a
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These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma
kept alive just for the sake of adherence to the materialist philosophy.

This dogma maintains that there is no being save matter. Therefore,

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