I am definitely a secularist but do not couple evolutionary theory with abiogenesis. That makes you wrong.
Furthermore, most do not - just poll the "secularists" posting to this thread and you will see. That makes you wronger.
"I am definitely a secularist but do not couple evolutionary theory with abiogenesis. That makes you wrong.
Furthermore, most do not - just poll the "secularists" posting to this thread and you will see. That makes you wronger."
What we have here a failure to communicate - my error. What I should have said is an "atheistic evolutionist" rather than "secularist." Apparently, there is a semantic difference that I did not realize.
As "I" see things, there are three basic groups of thought regarding evolution and abiogenesis:
(1) Atheistic Evolutionist - no God, no devine intervention, it just happened - an inate property of matter. Many different viewpoints on mechanisms, but all hold to no creator.
(2) Theistic Evoluntionist - Adds a "designer" in some way to the equation. Many different shades of these folks.
(3) Creationists. God did it all. Most, not all, hold to a literal belief in the Bible and the Genesis account - with differing "spins" of course.
Apparantly, a "secularist" could be in both group (1) and (2). So, I used the wrong term.