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Why Darwinian evolution is just another religion or faith and why you should stop making assumptions about the nature of reality
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Every faith-based view of reality is based on certain assumptions, altough often they are hidden assumptions or assumptions of which you aren't aware that they are assumptions. When you take for example the classical, dogmatic christian/catholic view of reality the assumptions are easy to point out, for example that the bible is true and the word of God, and certain assumptions about how the texts should be interpreted.
If you look at the Darwinian (or nowadays often called scientific) view of reality there is one core assumption, which is that there is only one ontological component of reality called "matter" and that everything can be explained in material terms. This is a slightly more complicated assumption than the previously mentioned view based on biblical assumptions, but in the core of the matter it is just the same. Darwinism is just as much a faith as is christianity or islam.
Now you might throw against this that certain assumptions are more likely than others, or that a smaller "leap of faith" is needed for one assumption than for the other. However, the only thing that makes one assumption seem more likely than the other is the view of reality you already have. What seems likely or logical in these matters is a function purely of the assumptions you have already made.
Another thing you might throw against this is that the scientific view of reality as opposed to for example the christian view is based on evidence and logic. However when you say this you haven't tought everything trough until the end. There are certain facts about reality, for example the genetic correlations between different animal species or the uniformity of different embryo's in the early stages of development, that can be used as excellent arguments for one worldview as opposed to another. However, here the same thing applies as above, namely that the interpretation attached to those facts is always a function of the worldview you already have.
What is the moral of this story? Stop making assumptions about reality! This is easier said than done, because it needs a lot of self exploration and courage. For one there are often assumptions you make of which you aren't aware that they are assumptions, or even that you make them. And second, if you have identified them, it is a huge leap to stop making them. You basically throw away the reality you have grown so accustomed and attached to, it can be quite a depressing experience at first when you go trough with it. However, the reward is infinitly more valuable: seeing reality as it truly is.
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