I watched a video that cited the following quote. I was so impressed with it that I wanted to share it with you guys here. Remember it the next time some atheist accuses you of making the "God did it." argument. It is they who make such an argument, only it isn't God its mindless evolution over eons of time that did it. We, at least, can appeal to the common sense notion that just as camp fires imply campers and watches imply watch makers, the wildly complex systems we see everywhere we look in nature imply a supernatural designer.
"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 its patent absurdity in 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 counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a divine foot in the door."
Marxist atheist - Richard Lewontin - from his review of Carl Sagan’s book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
