Fürstentum Liechtenstein wrote:jlay wrote:Evolution is an ideology. A faith belief.
cslewislover wrote:TC, I think it's very clear. Evolution is studied by "science" but it is not "science" itself. That's all I was saying, because you wrote that it is science.
I agree. Evolution is not science and it is not religion. Evolution is somewhat of a hybrid: it is more of a proto-religion than a science.*
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proto, as in
tending toward,
giving rise to, as in
protoplanet,
protomorph, etc.
I think the term "evolution" is very broad and used differently by many people in many different context; So much so that it's become something of a catch all phrase that has to be unpacked and terms defined carefully,
There is a very narrow sense to the word that can be used purely scienctifically that refers to the studied and nearly universal acceptance of evolution that relates to a process of change and development with species and gene pools. That's usually not the pure sense in which the word is used outside of that very narrow definition.
On the opposite end of the spectrum the word is used philosophically to equate to a position of belief that is represented to have its roots in science and thereby to somehow be more objective or "true" than positions of theism. Then there are all sorts of combinations and emphases that can fall along the spectrum between those two extremes.
Usually, before any productive conversation can take place, there needs to be a defining of terms and understanding reached by the participants as to what they mean by those terms, or else it becomes an exercise of talking past one another with each meaning something different while using similar words.
Dogmatism is the comfortable intellectual framework of self-righteousness. Self-righteousness is more decadent than the worst sexual sin. ~ Dan Allender
