Re: Irredeemably tainted words.

Steve Clark (ssclark@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Thu, 09 Jan 1997 15:25:35 -0600

At 11:24 AM 1/9/97 -0500, Loren wrote:
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>I really enjoyed what Steve Jones wrote about "mediate creation," and I
>agree with much of it.
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>But Steve's essay, and Jim's concurrence, on how the word "evolution" is
>tainted beyond redemption got me wondering. Why stop there? What other
>words are so tainted that we should stop fighting to redeem them from
>anti-theistic metaphysical baggage, and simply eschew their use?

"humanism" has been ruined so that it is automatically associated with
things atheistic, whereas, in reality, there is a grand tradition of
Christian humanism.
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