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The mere concept of a Vatican-sponsored conference on Evolutionary Biology prompts a test for IU feedback on the idea that an important cultural shift from Alienation to Identification might be underway.
Blogs that put down all things papal might not voice a departure from their established pattern, but the notion that reconciliation and convergence are catapulted forward via EvBio may be born out sufficiently for other observers.
Would noticeable agreement--from sources that aren't known to cleave to any "vatican line"--that the conference marks significant change point to resolution of old controversies?
From the earlier post in this thread:
: When individuals and smaller groups
: achieve the shift of assemblage point
: from Alienation to Identification,
: transformational effects are often noted.
Statements of scientists in a Catholic News Service article after the close of the conference breeze right past familiar polarities and objections on both sides of the church/science debate and shine a light on a central distinction that may present topic of interest to many:
Evolution is not to blame for atheism, says U.S. professor By Carol Glatz
March 6, 2009
ROME (CNS) -- Evolution is not to blame for attempts to remove God from the story of life, said a U.S. professor speaking at a Vatican conference.
Scientism, or the use of science beyond its proper sphere of investigating physical nature, is what has reduced the place of the divine in the world, said Robert J. Russell, founder and director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley, Calif.
Russell said Darwin and his theory of evolution have been "manipulated by others".
"If you claim evolution makes you an atheist or legitimates atheism or is the route to atheism, then you're really moving beyond the constraints of science," Russell said.
EvBio has put under the light of scrutiny SCIENTISM: "the self-annihilating view that only scientific claims are meaningful, which is not a scientific claim and hence, if true, not meaningful. Thus, scientism is either false or meaningless."
The distinction between science and scientism may clarify in the thought that the suffix '-ism' points to a social philosophy or theory of social structure, and seeks "full control" over phenomena such as Quantum Cognition. One good synonym for Scientism might be Totalitarianism. SCIENTA has an almost opposite meaning that encompasses what SCIENTISM negates. The Latin word scienta merely means "knowledge", which registers both in the so-called "non-rational" (intuitional) and "finite-rational" (intellectual) modes of awareness... or, through the interplay of BOTH modes.
Does spotlighting scientism open an avenue to uncover the hidden/shunned scienta? The path to the hidden technologies is laid out?
Unfortunately, [Russel] said, intelligent design and creationist proponents are not addressing the real problem evolution poses, which is how to explain the existence of suffering, disease, death and extinction before the historical event of the creation and fall of man.
EvBio turns the spotlight onto a deterministic, totalitarian framework of thought. What in our society has SCIENTISM shaped? What is the ongoing influence of SCIENTISM? Things like "Carbon Tax" and the idea that Humanity is a cancer upon the planet?
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