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Religion.Chapter.12.
Science and Secularity: The Modern Era Begins
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who said, "Sire, I have no need of that hypothesis." | Laplace |
| A 'scientific' religion | Deism |
| A natural theology | Argument from design |
| Argument from design | Deism |
| All events have natural causes, not supernatural causes | Naturalism |
| No God at all; only nature exists | Metaphysical Naturalism |
| No interventions in nature | Cosmological Naturalism |
| Science is limited to looking only for natural causes - no miracles; "as if" | Methodological Naturalism |
| God made intelligible world, God gave humans intelligence, so humans should rely on themselves for progress towards a more humane world | Religious Humanism |
| What if there is only one religion, ases on reason and not revelations. Revelations differ from each other, and divide people into warring religions | Religious Tolerance |
| "survival of the fittest" | Herbert Spencer |
| Broke new ground by describing how evolution could occur | Darwin's Theory |
| survival more likely for those which happen to be better "adapted" | Natural Selection |
| immoral to aid the weak or poor; welfare hurts human development | Social Darwinism |
| This-worldly, unreligious | Secular |
| belief in social progress | Evolutionary |
| Serve human well-being | BVM morality |
| Cultural evolution, guided by economics; modern industrial society produces great wealth, enough to share | Karl Marx's basic theory |