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Here, from the first paragraph I excerpted from Alfred North Whitehead's essay The Function of Reason.

We have here a colossal example of anti-empirical dogmatism arising from a successful methodology. Evidence which lies outside the method simply does not count.

Which pretty well sums up the mainstream of atheist materialist doctrine and dogma and slogans and the popular misunderstanding of science which the likes of Richard Dawkins have promoted in his evo-psy speculations.   I wouldn't be surprised if North Whitehead didn't have in mind, at least in part, the stupid habit of the logical positivists to declare, by fiat, anything that didn't fit within their method - chosen in no small part to not fit such things in - were illegitimate areas of intellectual activity.  

That demotion of the foundational activity of science, observation of nature, out of motives of promoting the ideology of atheist materialism is ubiquitous, not only in the social sciences but is rampant in the study of evolution* - there is a two-way commerce in nonsense among them that is one of the major non-religious superstitions, today.  And it's hardly confined to the so-called life sciences these days.  It has invaded physics through the "religion for atheists" cosmology, whose late high priests demanded that as a right because where they need to bring science to support their religion, science cannot go. 

It appears that the fundamental numbers, and even the form, of the apparent laws of nature are not demanded by logic or physical principle. The parameters are free to take on many values and the laws to take on any form that leads to a self-consistent mathematical theory, and they do take on different values and different forms in different universes.

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design 


To which Tim Radford's review gave the perfect response:

In this very brief history of modern cosmological physics, the laws of quantum and relativistic physics represent things to be wondered at but widely accepted: just like biblical miracles. M-theory invokes something different: a prime mover, a begetter, a creative force that is everywhere and nowhere. This force cannot be identified by instruments or examined by comprehensible mathematical prediction, and yet it contains all possibilities. It incorporates omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence, and it's a big mystery. Remind you of Anybody?
Tim Radford:  Review of Stephen Hawking's The Grand Design


Here we see that, though the high priest of popular atheist-materialism demanded his right to make anything he could dream up - empirical evidence be damned - to suit his ideological preferences and to exclude any evidence which doesn't suit him OR ANY NEED FOR EVIDENCE WHEN IT SUITS HIM.   Tell me that science has not been brought to a state of decadence by its attachment to atheist ideology, then tell me why I should ignore the evidence I've presented here.

*  It has to be if general statements about the evolution of species are made because virtually all of the actual process of evolution is and will always be invisible to science because the lives of organisms, individually and as members of larger groups within their species and within their species, what led to their greater or lesser success in leaving offspring demonstrating the characteristics those parents had, are not discernible in any great detail from the minuscule fractions of dead specimen that the geological record have given up or ever will give up.  The replacement of that by speculations such as Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology and, these days,  GOOD FLIPPIN' GRIEF!  by the like of Jordan Peterson, is not science, it's a particularly pretentious and ridiculous lore with a thin veneer of equations allegedly about current, often very distantly related species, pretending that that can fill in the gaping void of observation.   That so many college credentialed sci-ranger boys fall for the tripe Jordan peddles about human sex roles and lobsters is proof that The Public Understanding of Science such as evolutionary psychology peddles is rankest superstition.