Evolutional Theory
I read a lot of social science, educational texts, and related work.
Almost all of them are based on an evolutionary worldview.
There is a difference between "believing" in evolution (a term I find problematic) and having an evolutionary world view.
Like Tim Keller, I can accept evolution, to a point, as a biological process; I can't accept it as an explanation for existence, as a defining mythos, or an all-encompassing explanatory theory.
So it gets a little tiresome that every human behavior is attributed to something evolutionary that either comes from "our reptile brains," "our ancestors in trees," or "our forefather on the savannah in Africa." Some things we do because over thousands of years we learned it from living in societies. And yes, some of it comes from inherent design.
In fact, some of the evolutionary explanations sound like "slow magic." I was listening to an NPR program today on, well, bird sex, and at one point they say "the scales of the dinosaurs became feathers." What? Seriously? that sounds like a fairy tale--one that took a while to come to fruition, but a fairy tale nonetheless.
Almost all of them are based on an evolutionary worldview.
There is a difference between "believing" in evolution (a term I find problematic) and having an evolutionary world view.
Like Tim Keller, I can accept evolution, to a point, as a biological process; I can't accept it as an explanation for existence, as a defining mythos, or an all-encompassing explanatory theory.
So it gets a little tiresome that every human behavior is attributed to something evolutionary that either comes from "our reptile brains," "our ancestors in trees," or "our forefather on the savannah in Africa." Some things we do because over thousands of years we learned it from living in societies. And yes, some of it comes from inherent design.
In fact, some of the evolutionary explanations sound like "slow magic." I was listening to an NPR program today on, well, bird sex, and at one point they say "the scales of the dinosaurs became feathers." What? Seriously? that sounds like a fairy tale--one that took a while to come to fruition, but a fairy tale nonetheless.
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