Bex stated in message 254066:

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Evolutionist Richard Lewontin in The New York Review, January, 1997, page 31:

We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of the 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 mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

This is a misquote as you've (or AIG, or whatever site you took this from) left out the rather important final sentence:

"The eminent Kant scholar Lewis Beck used to say that anyone who could believe in God could believe in anything. To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen." (emphasis mine)

From here.

This is an important point. This is why you don't find many genuine quotes by scientists (especially Evolutionary Biologists) in favour of Creationism.

Bear in mind also that Evolution is a separate topic from the origin of life (that is known as Abiogenesis). Evolution "is the process of change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms from one generation to the next." From here.

K