how evos thinks:
Harvard Genetics Professor Richard Lewontin, a Marxist expressed his attitude in the followings (Johnson, 1997):
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 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.
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001032/02/URAM2.htmlAs the Lewontin quote seems to be the creationist quote du jour and as it is but a snippet of the original article and told as snipped by Johnson, here is a link that provides the full, original review,
Billions and Billions of Demons. Note that Lewontin identifies creation scientism as an uneducated populist revolt against university elite.