Cultural relativist arguments were melded by cons with a conspiratorial theory of knowledge.
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You could probably make the argument that another factor was New Atheism stating their ideas were representative of scientific thought/consensus as well.
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New Atheism is largely a reaction to fundamentalist/evangelical opposition to evolutionary theory. You've got it backwards.
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You're wrong.
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Indeed.
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More directly related to Christian fundamentalism and the aftermath of the Scopes Trial in 1925 than evangelism per se.
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Didn’t it start earlier in America as a reaction and rejection of the scientific reasoning and skepticism of the Age of Reason and a return to religion and spirituality in the Second Great Awakening?
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i think that's largely right
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But my experience is that it is a somewhat global phenomenon that can be found wherever doctrinaire, sacred text-based religion encounters the rational forces of finding out what is actually true. I know some traditional Theravada Buddhists who exhibit similar ideas.
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Nope. Read Aileen Fyfe, Science & Salvation how 19th century evangelicalism embraced science writing.Many other histories of 19th century evangelicalism and science complicate/disprove your thesis. Secord,Victorian Sensation on Evangelicals and early evolutionary theory also good
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If all you read of 19th century history on this is Gertrude Himmelfarb, I could see how you might come to this conclusion.
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