| − | People like [[Richard Dawkins]] and Richard Lewontin start with a philosophical premise: There is no God, therefore a purely materialistic explanation of everything, including us, must be true. But this is ideology, not science. Lewontin, who teaches genetics at Harvard, admits as much: "We take the side of science… in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism."<ref> [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4761196 George Sim Johnston at National Public Radio]</ref>
| + | [[Atheism|Atheists]] such as [[Richard Dawkins]] and Richard Lewontin start with a philosophical premise: There is no God, therefore a purely materialistic explanation of everything, including us, must be true. But this is ideology, not science. Lewontin, who teaches genetics at Harvard, admits as much: "We take the side of science… in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism."<ref> [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4761196 George Sim Johnston at National Public Radio]</ref> |