Dogma: March 2005 Archives

The more the human mind becomes magnanimous or expanded, the more it rises above the sentiments of tribalism, communalism [socio-religious sentiment], provincialism, etc. Often I hear people say that nationalism is an appreciable sentiment and that there is no narrowness in it.

Christian proponents of creation theory continue to confront the Darwinian theory of evolution in new ways. Creation theory itself, however, is covertly anthropocentric. Nevertheless, the controversy concerns more than Christians and their scientific opponents.