0059 Our current world is fallen, yet civilization constantly rises from the ashes of prior self-destructions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bible depicts a cycle of formation, deformation, and reformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A new approach to the psychological and the social sciences<\/em> ought to move in tandem with Biblical interpretation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0060 Some evolutionary psychologists already stumble in this direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, today, people are fat, lazy and addicted to sugar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is the problem that our ancestors adapt to a world filled with fat-burning, strenuous and sugar-demanding activities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n No, with the benefits of civilization, the pressure is off. We can afford to slow down, take rests and eat desserts. The problem is our current Lebenswelt<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0061 When anyone asks me what I’m doing, I say, “I’m working.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n But, I’m really eating candy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, I project meaning, presence and message into the word, “work”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And, my projection is paying off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My own spoken words<\/em> create an artifact that justifies my sloth, plus a little extra<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fat, that is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 0062 Spoken words<\/em> stimulate the production of artifacts that appear to validate the meaning, presence and message of spoken words<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Doesn’t that sound scientific?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The motif is so versatile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Augustine proposes that the disorder caused by Adam’s rebellion<\/em> resides in our privy parts<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Surely, he is on track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What better incentive to manipulate meaning, presence and message, than to generate artifacts in the service of one’s privy parts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The current Zeitgeist says, “It’s only natural.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Augustine’s concept of\u00a0concupiscence<\/em>\u00a0sounds like\u00a0an orientation that postmoderns want to speak about<\/em>… er…\u00a0manage<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 0059 Our current world is fallen, yet civilization constantly rises from the ashes of prior self-destructions. The Bible depicts a cycle of formation, deformation, and reformation. A new approach to the psychological and the social sciences ought to move in tandem with Biblical interpretation. 0060 Some evolutionary psychologists already stumble in this direction. For example, today, people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,10,8,4],"tags":[64,115,30,128,114,113,109,110,29,118,119,116,111,50,112,117],"class_list":["post-4888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-an-archaeology-of-the-fall","category-defining-religion","category-our-current-lebenswelt-is-not-the-lebenswelt-that-we-evolved-in","category-the-emergence-of-the-possibility-of-unconstrained-complexity","tag-adam-and-eve","tag-adaptation","tag-an-archaeology-of-the-fall","tag-biologos","tag-christian","tag-concupiscence","tag-definition","tag-evolution-and-the-fall","tag-first-singularity","tag-how-to-define-the-word-religion","tag-human-evolution","tag-niche","tag-original-sin","tag-religion","tag-secular","tag-the-human-niche"],"yoast_head":"\n