Modernism
Modernism is a chiliastic heresy, in fact an entire world-view, predicated on the idea of progress. Being an all-encompassing world-view, modernism not only deals with matters of doctrine but also extends to philosophy, social mores, the arts, and how the scientific method is applied and interpreted.
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Overview
Reader Vladimir Moss summarizes what he calls the modern secular-scientific world-view with these eight points:[1]
- The universe came into being spontaneously from nothing.
- The development of the universe by chance, after coming into existence.
- Abiogenesis—the becoming alive of non-living matter—by chance.[2]
- Evolution of complex life from simple life by the combined action of chance mutation and natural selection.
- Evolution of man from apes by the same process.
- The nonexistence of free will, nor of an immortal soul of man.
- That all the achievements of man are a consequence only of these matters of chance.
- That miracles beyond the scope of scientific investigation and explanation, do not exist.
The first of these relates specifically to the Big Bang Hypothesis. The second unequivocally asserts accidentalism, a position also implied in the other points. Points three through five are Darwinist, and lead by implication to fatalism, moral indifferentism, and will to power, as the seventh point also does. Points six and eight assert a weak form of materialism/physicalism. The eighth point summarizes the incoherent philosophy of scientism.
References
- ↑ Vladimir Moss, Why the modern world-view must be wrong
- ↑ In arguing that the Second Law of Thermodynamics counters the claims made on this point, Rdr. Moss inaccurately states that the law causes information to be lost. As it was stated by Susskind & Hrabovsky, “what is undoubtedly the most fundamental of all physical laws [is] the conservation of information.” (Emphasis in original.) The counterpoint is reasonable despite incorrect use of technical language. Leonard Susskind & George Hbrabovsky, The Theoretical Minimum, 2013. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-07568-3. p. 9.
