Richard Lewontin Quotes:
Ocupation: Evolutionary Biologist
Life: b. March 29, 1929
Birthday: March 29
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. 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 absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door
source: "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997. 
topic: Commitment, Doors, Feet, Naturalism, Creation And Evolution, Intuitive, Anti Religion, Creation Science
