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Old 09-21-2009, 11:23 AM   #85
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Originally Posted by peter12 View Post
It wasn't direct through Darwin but through some of his philosophical contemporaries. I can suggest the writings of Eric Voegelin for confirmation.

The overall issue, as Voegelin puts it, is gnostic scientism. The idea that science, not philosophy, separates spirit from nature and reduces it to a set of rules. I'm not saying that Darwin's ideas were not horribly twisted as soon as he wrote them down, but thus is the danger of human interpretation.
Wow you seem to view everything through philosophy's lens. I think the scope of reality is much larger than any one discipline can cover.
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