The Definitional Imperative

I'm getting weary of hearing professors pontificate about 'religion' and 'science' when no such things exist. In an effort to make this a better world I've decided to clear up the confusion in this area. Despite what you've heard (my fellow earthlings) there is no conflict between 'science' and religion.' This is a fabricated conflict. This won't take long so read on.

Religion and science
- it's popular among professors to distinguish 'science' from 'religion.' These are made out to be separate entities. I believe this is mistaken. I reject the word religion in favor of the term world view. When we do this we see it makes no sense to say 'science' is a separate thing from a world view; rather we see that each different world view has its own distinctive view of science.

So we say that 'science' is a part of a world view. This helps clear things up; so we see that evolutionary theory no way conflicts with Materialism, and that creationism in no way conflicts with Christianity. (And young earth creationism in no way conflicts with 'Fundamentalism.') This way of looking at things is concrete, and not 'idealistic' and this is why it works. It's weakness is that it lacks rhetorical appeal... and makes far too much sense. It also lacks appeal as a weapon to club opponents with. (I assume therefore that it's doomed :=)