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John Larson, a Roman Catholic, clearly opposes evolution, partly because he doesn't like what some theologians, including Popes, have done with the idea. Yet he makes no place for a natural process of evolution, even if all notion of evolving theology is rejected.
John Larson: << I literally hated science, technology, and most of all the theory of evolution. All of these things were suffocative with the intellectual ambience of reductionism. >>
Link: Part VIII: Beauty | The War Against Being ; Title Art VIII: Beauty
Larson has no use for science and no use for technology, so he feels free to reject it. I'm sure he uses technology like everyone else but he doesn't want to think about it. Larson hates evolution, which he regards as "suffocative" and the outcome of "reductionism." By reductionism he apparently means the attempt to replace religious ideas with secular ones. Yet the use of secular ideas doesn't necessarily mean that anyone is attacking God. It just means that people have their eyes open.
Larson has trouble using the word "science" without saying "reductive science." More quotes from his theological articles:
<< Reductive science is the primary causative factor for the material heresies we find in his [Benedict XVI's] writings. The two scientific “dogmas” which have come to dominate his thinking are reductive “atomism” and evolution. >>
Article 21: The Sifting: The Never- Failing Faith of Peter | The War Against Being
Article 21: The Sifting: The Never- Failing Faith of Peter
By "atomism," Larson means simply belief in atoms. To Larson, anyone who believes in chemical elements is trying to deconstruct God's universe.
<< All of this, as I have discussed in numerous previous articles, is rooted in the subjection of faith to modern reductive science (especially analytical physics and evolution), and the consequent loss of the entire concept of substance as applicable to anything to do with either God or man. >>
<< The most powerful engine of reductive science is the theory of evolution – both physical and spiritual. >>
For both quotes:
Link:Part XXI: Amoris Laetitia, Part IV: The War Against Being | The War Against Being
Part XXI: Amoris Laetitit, Part IV: The War Against Being
By describing "evolution" as a "engine of reductive science," Larson assumes, like many other creationists, that evolution is a conspiracy to undermine religion. This isn't true, the history of science doesn't support it. Besides, if your religion is constantly at war with the facts, there is something wrong with your religion. It looks like John Larson begins and ends with hatred of evolution, science and technology. Perhaps he suffers from an incredible case of the Not Invented Here syndrome: If a Catholic theologian didn't invent it, it must be wrong.
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John Larson: << I literally hated science, technology, and most of all the theory of evolution. All of these things were suffocative with the intellectual ambience of reductionism. >>
Link: Part VIII: Beauty | The War Against Being ; Title Art VIII: Beauty
Larson has no use for science and no use for technology, so he feels free to reject it. I'm sure he uses technology like everyone else but he doesn't want to think about it. Larson hates evolution, which he regards as "suffocative" and the outcome of "reductionism." By reductionism he apparently means the attempt to replace religious ideas with secular ones. Yet the use of secular ideas doesn't necessarily mean that anyone is attacking God. It just means that people have their eyes open.
Larson has trouble using the word "science" without saying "reductive science." More quotes from his theological articles:
<< Reductive science is the primary causative factor for the material heresies we find in his [Benedict XVI's] writings. The two scientific “dogmas” which have come to dominate his thinking are reductive “atomism” and evolution. >>
Article 21: The Sifting: The Never- Failing Faith of Peter | The War Against Being
Article 21: The Sifting: The Never- Failing Faith of Peter
By "atomism," Larson means simply belief in atoms. To Larson, anyone who believes in chemical elements is trying to deconstruct God's universe.
<< All of this, as I have discussed in numerous previous articles, is rooted in the subjection of faith to modern reductive science (especially analytical physics and evolution), and the consequent loss of the entire concept of substance as applicable to anything to do with either God or man. >>
<< The most powerful engine of reductive science is the theory of evolution – both physical and spiritual. >>
For both quotes:
Link:Part XXI: Amoris Laetitia, Part IV: The War Against Being | The War Against Being
Part XXI: Amoris Laetitit, Part IV: The War Against Being
By describing "evolution" as a "engine of reductive science," Larson assumes, like many other creationists, that evolution is a conspiracy to undermine religion. This isn't true, the history of science doesn't support it. Besides, if your religion is constantly at war with the facts, there is something wrong with your religion. It looks like John Larson begins and ends with hatred of evolution, science and technology. Perhaps he suffers from an incredible case of the Not Invented Here syndrome: If a Catholic theologian didn't invent it, it must be wrong.
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