timothya
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Joined: April 2013
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At UD:
"Here Is How Gnosticism Informs Evolution"
I must admit I muttered a sotto voce WTF when this headline pierced my eyeballs.
The entire linked article appears to be about how various flavours of pro-evolutionary religious thinking are "gnostic". This may be true, but requires more knowledge of the intricacies of religion than I can muster.
But so what. How would gnosticism inform evolutionary biology? I thought gnosticism carried the connotation of cryptic knowledge. What use cryptic knowledge would be in the world of science baffles me, unless patent applications qualify.
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