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evaluation of the progress of scientific research. We thus arrive atan evolutionary theory of science, a theory of human knowledgewhich relates to an evolutionary establishment of itself.”If such statements were based on a sufficient body of facts, thenone might perhaps agree with the conclusions. But the reverse processwas followed: All phenomena of nature are placed under theall-encompassing evolutionary umbrella. Scientists who submitthemselves to such a mental corset and support it uncritically, degradethemselves to mere vassals of a materialistic philosophy. Scienceshould however only be subservient to the truth, and not topre-programmed folly. But evolutionary theory bans any mentionof a planning Spirit as a purposeful First Cause in natural systems,and endeavours to imprison all sciences in the straight-jacketcalled the “self-organisation of matter”. Wuketits supports evolutionarytheory with a near ideological fervour, and accuses everybodyof fable mongering, who claims to be scientific and speak of“planning spirits” or of a “designer” in nature. He wishes to banthoughts of “finality” and of “final and purposeful causes” fromscience and from the domain of all serious schools of thought.An appreciable fraction of all scientists who concern themselveswith cosmological questions and with questions of origins, supportthe evolutionary view, to such an extent that the well-known Americanbio-informaticist Hubert P. Jockey [J1] bemoans the fact thatthe literature in this area is blandly and totally supportive. Hewrites in the Journal of Theoretical Biology [Vol 91, 1981, p 13]:“Since science does not have the faintest idea how life on earthoriginated,... it would only be honest to confess this to other scientists,to grantors, and to the public at large. Prominent scientistsspeaking ex cathedra, should refrain from polarising theminds of students and young productive scientists with statementsthat are based solely on beliefs.”The doctrine of evolution is definitely not a viable scientific leitmotiv(guiding principle), even the well-known theoreticist, KarlPopper [H1], once characterised it as a “metaphysical researchprogramme”. This assertion is just as noteworthy as it is honest,because Popper himself supports evolution.101