(cont'd from yesterday's post)
How can Carl Sagan be sure that the "cosmos is all there is, or ever was, or ever will be"? He can't. But he agreed with Richard Lewontin, a Harvard scientist, who made his view of reality and science very clear:
Evolutionists ... 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 absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.
At the end of each ScienceUprising video in my Materialism 1-6 posts, the voice over said:
"We are not materialists. We see the human soul. We experience love. We live with purpose. We fight for justice. We are the quiet majority, and we will be quiet no longer." Many people, Christian or not, stand here. Materialists will not allow "a Divine Foot in the door." But when we see evidence for the Creator in nature, we welcome it.
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