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| − | '''Richard Charles Lewontin''' (born March 29, 1929) is an [[American]] [[evolution|evolutionary biologist]], geneticist and social commentator. | + | '''Richard Charles Lewontin''' (born March 29, 1929) is an [[American]] [[evolution|evolutionary biologist]], geneticist and social commentator. Lewontin admitted to placing blind faith in [[materialism]], while ignoring supernatural phenomena. |
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Richard Charles Lewontin (born March 29, 1929) is an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator. Lewontin admitted to placing blind faith in materialism, while ignoring supernatural phenomena.
Quotes
"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, 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 counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." [1]