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Couldn't someone argue that evolutionary theory is based on the fact that ONLY one causation of physical findings is allowed,(namely "nature" --whatever "nature" really is) and its roots are in atheistic philosophy, and therefore it is not legitimate?

You were OK until you started talking about atheistic philosophy. Modern science is based on simple observation and reasoning about observations.

Science doesn't claim to be all-knowing. And it's generally indifferent to philosophy, except when the philosophy says don't trust your eyes. If everything we see is a lie, then science shouldn't produce any results like electric appliances, computers or computer networks, which wouldn't be real anyway.

Also you should be aware that modern science has roots in the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). They were not exactly atheist philosophers.

[Right Wing Professor]

Also you should be aware that modern science has roots in the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). They were not exactly atheist philosophers.

Well, most of them weren't :-)

(Hey, even ex-Catholics can make Jesuit jokes. It says so right here in the handbook.)