Re: Evolutionism the religion

From: Wolf Kirchmeir (wwolfkir_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:48:02 -0500

Gactimus wrote:
> I copied this from the talk.origins feed back (April 2000):
>
> "How so? It has no deity. No worship. No priests. No sabbath. No
> commandments. No inerrant doctrine-- it is constantly undergoing
> revision. It has no reliance on the supernatural or miracles. It has
> no penalties for unbelief. Belief in evolution carries no promises of
> reward. It is acceptable for any deity, including Jehovah, to be
> inserted in the forefront, taking credit for the progression of
> evolution. How, then, is evolution a religion? Are other scientific
> theories, such as the theory of relativity, also a religion? How does
> one distinguish and determine this?"
>
>
> A religion is essentially an attitude to the world as a whole. [...]

That's faith, not religion. The passage you quote summarsies the
features of religion as distinct from faith. Faith may or may not
animate a person's religion. Many people with faith have no religion at all.

BTW, in the OT there is ample evidence that God/Yahwe does not like
religion at all.

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