Trust the Science?
What often passes for science is merely philosophical presuppositions clung to with religious fervor. Science is a method for investigating reality. Materialistic Darwinism is another false religion.
A stunning admission from Harvard genetics professor Richard Lewontin:
“Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs . . . in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to 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 counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.” [1]
[1] Richard Lewontin, quoted in Gregory Koukl, Tactics, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019), 207–208.
A stunning admission from Harvard genetics professor Richard Lewontin:
“Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs . . . in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to 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 counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.” [1]
[1] Richard Lewontin, quoted in Gregory Koukl, Tactics, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019), 207–208.
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