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Overheard on the interwebs: the dominant secular ideas of a period are just the dominant religious ideas of the preceding period with their serial numbers filed off.
Now, apply this to Big Bang cosmology. The similarity to creation ex nihilo is pretty obvious. Even more disturbingly, apply it to the Western Idea of Progress. Yes, that would be postmillennialism. Or even premillennialism in some versions! Cough, cough, Marxism, cough, cough. And what about evolution? Isn´t that just secularized German Romanticism?
Which doesn´t necessarily mean that these worldviews are wrong. Maybe science genuinely proves certain armchair speculations right. Or kind of right, since science (at last nominally) insist that everything is matter (in mystical motion, perhaps?). But that just raises the next question: How many of these ideas have *really* been scientifically proven in the first place? I would say that Darwin´s theory of evolution is pretty solid (as far as it goes). Indeed, Neo-Darwinism seems to be the furthest removed from any "Western" religion due to its rejection of teleology.
The other stuff? Not so much. In fact, I´m convinced that the Big Bang cosmology will be seen as a secular version of Biblical creation in 100 years, in much the same way as "everyone knows" today that Marx just took over some mystifications of a Hegel. And in secret, everyone also knows that the idea of Progress really comes from the Protestants, the Jews or the Rosicrucians. Whatever.
But I´m not going anywhere in particular with this. So I stop here.
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