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[[Atheism and the suppression of science]], as well as atheism and the rejection of science, is one common criticism of [[atheism]], as [[militant atheist]]s have often suppressed [[science|scientific knowledge]] because it conflicts with a presupposed [[materialism|materialistic]] [[worldview]].<ref name="Lennox">{{cite web|url=http://johnlennox.org/index.php/en/resource/same_evidence_different_conclusions_how/|title =Same evidence, different conclusions: how?|author=[[John Lennox]]|publisher=Science and Ethics|quote=Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a profesor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an a priori materialism. You start with that materialism and he said that materialism is absolute.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref>  

[[Atheism and the suppression of science]], as well as atheism and the rejection of science, is one common criticism of [[atheism]], as [[militant atheist]]s have often suppressed [[science|scientific knowledge]] because it conflicts with a presupposed [[materialism|materialistic]] [[worldview]].<ref name="Lennox">{{cite web|url=http://johnlennox.org/index.php/en/resource/same_evidence_different_conclusions_how/|title =Same evidence, different conclusions: how?|author=[[John Lennox]]|publisher=Science and Ethics|quote=Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a profesor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an a priori materialism. You start with that materialism and he said that materialism is absolute.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref>  

Dr. [[Richard Lewontin]], in the ''New York Review of Books'', January 9, 1997:31 entitled ''Billions and Billions of Demons'' (reviewing the book ''The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark'' by Carl Sagan) states:<ref name="Waldman">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wXGyV0vdDoUC&pg=PA241&dq=materialism+absolute+divine+foot+atheism&hl=en&ei=uCxxTeWyFoOKlwepyOQ0&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q&f=false|title =Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Convincing Evidence of the Truths of Judaism|author=Shmuel Waldman|publisher=[[Feldheim Publishers]]|quote=Consider the following remark made by Harvard biologist Richard Lewontin in the ''New York Review of Books'', January 9, 1997:31 entitled ''Billions and Billions of Demons'' (reviewing the book ''The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark'' by Carl Sagan): "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 extravangant 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's 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."|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref>

Dr. [[Richard Lewontin]], in the ''New York Review of Books'', January 9, 1997:31 entitled ''Billions and Billions of Demons'' (reviewing the book ''The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark'' by Carl Sagan) states:<ref name="Waldman">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wXGyV0vdDoUC&pg=PA241&dq=materialism+absolute+divine+foot+atheism&hl=en&ei=uCxxTeWyFoOKlwepyOQ0&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q&f=false|title =Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Convincing Evidence of the Truths of Judaism|author=Shmuel Waldman|publisher=Feldheim Publishers|quote=Consider the following remark made by Harvard biologist Richard Lewontin in the ''New York Review of Books'', January 9, 1997:31 entitled ''Billions and Billions of Demons'' (reviewing the book ''The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark'' by Carl Sagan): "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 extravangant 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's 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."|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref>

{{cquote|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 extravangant promises of health and life, ''in spite'' of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstatiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It's 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 unitiated. Moreover, that Materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.<ref name="Waldman">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wXGyV0vdDoUC&pg=PA241&dq=materialism+absolute+divine+foot+atheism&hl=en&ei=uCxxTeWyFoOKlwepyOQ0&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q&f=false|title =Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Convincing Evidence of the Truths of Judaism|author=Shmuel Waldman|publisher=[[Feldheim Publishers]]|quote=Consider the following remark made by Harvard biologist Richard Lewontin in the ''New York Review of Books'', January 9, 1997:31 entitled ''Billions and Billions of Demons'' (reviewing the book ''The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark'' by Carl Sagan): "We take the side of science ''in spite'' of the patent absurdidy of some of its constructs, ''in spite'' of its failure to fulfill many of its extravangant 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's 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."|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref>}}

{{cquote|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 extravangant promises of health and life, ''in spite'' of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstatiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It's 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 unitiated. Moreover, that Materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.<ref name="Waldman">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wXGyV0vdDoUC&pg=PA241&dq=materialism+absolute+divine+foot+atheism&hl=en&ei=uCxxTeWyFoOKlwepyOQ0&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q&f=false|title =Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Convincing Evidence of the Truths of Judaism|author=Shmuel Waldman|publisher=[[Feldheim Publishers]]|quote=Consider the following remark made by Harvard biologist Richard Lewontin in the ''New York Review of Books'', January 9, 1997:31 entitled ''Billions and Billions of Demons'' (reviewing the book ''The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark'' by Carl Sagan): "We take the side of science ''in spite'' of the patent absurdidy of some of its constructs, ''in spite'' of its failure to fulfill many of its extravangant 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's 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."|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref>}}