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We
live in a world that is shaped by the past.
Not
just the physical word but also the world of people.
And
the world of ideas.
In
other words we inherit more then our genes from our ancestors. To
understand our present we must understand our past
Up
unto the 17th Century the prevalent idea about
the world
was that God had created it and was in control of it. Then a
world-view called Modernism took over the lead position. It's
premise was Naturalism or Materialism that is there was nothing but
the material universe and there was nothing above the natural.
Everything can be explained by the natural laws obtained by
observation and experiment.
In
the past 100 years there has been an accelerating change towards a
Post- modernist position which renounces the arrogant positions of
the past and maintains that truth is un-knowable. The definition of
tolerance has changed from accepting people with different views from
yourself to accepting all views as equal.
For
a audio Christian evaluation on the current world-view click
here
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