You know as well as I do that although Darwin articulated the doctrine of Evolution, that many people believed in a form of it over the years. I could go to the internet and find examples of this as well as you can. But what is the point of that? I am sure you won't deny it is the fact or are you prepared to say that evolution is a modern doctrine that has arisen because of a new type of prophet? This after all is not a topic on evolution. It is on atheism and worldview.
Now you want me to define terms clearly. Whatever for? Do you know what evolution is? OF course you do. Perhaps you want to make sure I understand it the same way as you do? How do you know I don't? You often throw out your definition of God or understanding of God - despite the fact that it is not the same as mine. Or you (speaking generally) request people to define their God - so that you (generally) can pick it to pieces.
This topic is about the worldview of atheists. Atheists pretend they don't have a worldview. In fact they bury their heads into the sand and say things like "we don't have a faith - our position is that we are a "non-faith". It is not that we don't believe in God, we can see no evidence for any god. This is the only thing that might be said to unite us - otherwise we are all individuals with our own views about everything else. In fact our non-belief in god is only incidental to who we are as humans. We are humans first, we start there, and then we look at the evidence about us in response to the life we live. We might never ever entertain the question of God because it might never be raised with us. Hence to suggest that it is somehow relevant to the way I think is nonsense - an absurdity.
I on the other hand think that type of thinking is an absurdity and profoundly ignorant. To live in a world that is dominated by religions and ideas about God or gods is a truism. To pretend that this can be simply deleted is nonsense. Everyone in every culture - even the Russian Communist and Chinese Communist ones, unless history is destroyed completely, the notion of god or gods will arise.
I think the problem for the atheist is that if their position is labeled a worldview - then that implicitly means they too a religion. And this of course is exactly the reason they took the view secular and changed its meaning to mean "non-religious". A term that by definition excludes religion. After all if they can exclude religion - then they cannot be labeled one. It is fudging the truth though. It is bringing the cart before the horse. It is hiding one's head in the sand.
Every atheist is an evolutionist. Despite requesting examples otherwise - you keep dodging this one. Please find me an example of an atheist who is not an evolutionist.
Not every theist is an evolutionist. Many are. Not every theist is a creationist. Yet creationism is still a doctrine that unites many theists- although it is not more than a generalization. Applying that to atheists - it might be the case that some atheists deny evolution, but even this would not be enough to deny that evolution is a doctrine of atheistic worldview.
There is a commonality amongst atheists in the West. There is a commonality amongst atheists in the East. Both have their worldviews. Marxist / Lennonism is a communist worldview - but not just a communist worldview but an Atheistic communistic worldview. Secular Humanism is a Western Atheistic Worldview. Buddhism is an Atheistic Spiritual worldview.
But one thing common to all of these worldviews is evolution. What I would like to explore is other commonalities.
