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#790 Conor Cunningham: Theology, Nihilism, and Evolutionary Theory

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Darwinian Nihilism and Evolutionary Theory

Any loom discipline left to its own devices will, as I say, go into ideology and I think will lead to nihilism. Evolutionary theory likewise. But when it is mediated by metaphysics, when it is mediation by other disciplines of which it informs,. no, it doesn't lead toihilism. Only if it's the only game in time. And so this dead scientific paradigm, it degenerates. So the old fashioned, passé building block, clunk click, clumsy view of evolution is gone. The theology of philosophy that marries the science of today will be the widow of tomorrow. Because it's always changing.

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