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From: Brumar8912/27/2009 1:40:17 PM
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Opposing Worldviews

by Bradford
On page 36 of Signature in the Cell Stephen Meyer traces the historic roots of different Weltanshuungen or worldviews held by distinct origin factions. Meyer describes how during a "scientific revolution" period spanning from 1300 to 1700 founders of modern science held a mind-first view of reality called idealism indicating that ideas preceded matter. Theism is a subset of idealism in which God is the source of ideas. Idealism can be traced back to the ancient Greeks. It was around before Christ and rebukes recent materialist assertions that ID is creationism. The Greeks had no Book of Genesis.

Opposing idealism is the doctrine of naturalism or materialism. This doctrine holds that matter and energy preceded and gave rise to thought. On page 37 Meyer writes:

An age-old conflict between the mind-first and matter-first worldviews cuts right through the heart of the mystery of life's origin. Can the origin of life be explained purely by reference to material processes such as undirected chemical reactions or random collisions of molecules? Can it be explained without recourse to the activity of a designing intelligence?

If explanations entail demonstrable and repeatable chemical processes then the answer to Meyer's question is clearly no.

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