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There are plenty of people who believe in guided evolution. Even evolutionists who say they don't believe in God sometimes believe that way, in an aristotelian fashion where everything has a purpose.
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Exactly. There is such thing as theistic evolution.
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But from the point of view of the stricter theory of evolution, there is no such concept of guidance.
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Maybe, but in that case the theory in question is stepping outside the boundaries of the scientifica research sensu stricto and is encroaching on the field of theology and/or philosophy. It is then a kind of religious belief and should be treated as such.
The problem is that more than often it is this pseudo-religion that is being imposed on everybody and called evolution pure and simple, as opposed to Christianity, Theism (obscurantism, ignorance etc.)
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Nature is variation at random - in the modern variant this is mutations happen at random - and the best adapted survive. No purpose, no guidance or anything of the sort is needed to explain nature - or so they say. And that's exactly the reason why there's no concept of guidance in the theory of evolution: Ockham's razor makes the God assumption superfluous. The bottom line is that the theory of evolution doesn't even evaluate the question of God's existence.
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But what you say does not apply to the question of evolution only. You have people who believe that everything happens by blind chance (atheists) and those who think that the apparent chaos is just our illusion, but that there is a higher intelligence Logos, God, who steers everything
for some higher purpose(theists).
Why would such opposition be unique for the evolution? Except if someone has an agenda to sneak in the militant atheism in the guise of "evolution".
And there are many schools among the evolutionists, some believe in God, some don't. One among the former ones is a famed and influential Italian biologist (many important discoveries in biology) Giuseppe Sermonti. He is not even a Christian, but a Neoplatonist. He claims to be seeking a universal harmony in nature...
Why would the evolution imply necessarily that there is no God, is beyond me.
Or, one could then say, ironically, that those that you mentioned, who represent the school of the "stricter theory" of evolution, believe in a god called Random.
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Back on the question: I think that a ban of this sort is bound to create anti-spiritual sentiment, simply because it's basically a ban on an existential question. It will take effect also outside biology class.
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Don't be so sure. It may trigger some kind of resistance as well. For example, speaking of myself, I became interested in spiritual matters, and finally came to the Faith, exactly because I was flooded with atheistic propaganda from my childhood onward. But it is just me, I have a kind of rebellious nature.