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Sunday, June 05, 2011
New category for religious attiitude toward evolution:secularism
Religious attitudes towards evolution go by various names--theistic evolution,creationism ,New atheism, accommodationism, agnosticism , etc. Now I propose a new category ,secularism, that represents the complete absence of any religious attitude towards evolution (even agnostics have some kind of attitude towards the relationship between religion and evolution). I always wanted evolution and intelligent design to be like that
Generally this was how Gould characterized things in his book "Rock of Ages." That science is ever separated from the philosophical/theological concerns. I forget the exact term he used for this but it was shortened to NOMA.
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NOMA stands for"Non-overlapping magisteria." It is a religious cocept.
ReplyDeleteHow on earth is "New atheism" another name for "religious attitudes towards evolution"?
ReplyDeleteThe are the complete opposite of one another!
It is notanother name --it is definitely a kind of religious attitude toward evolution. It scorns both theistic evolutionists and accommodationists
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