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.....!. ?. One’s Worldview has a lot to do with their culture. It is recognized that there exists two major cultures that have influenced man’s thinking since early history till today. Those are… The Western Culture & The Non-Western Culture

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  2. One’s Worldview has a lot to do with their culture. It is recognized that there exists two major cultures that have influenced man’s thinking since early history till today. Those are… The Western Culture & The Non-Western Culture These are two cultures of great contrasts of how they each think and perceive the world around them.

  3. Western Culture Non-Western Culture Thinking: Thinking: 1. Physical 1. Spiritual 2. Super Natural/Nat. 2. Creator; Created 3. Closed System 3. Open System 4. Mind/Body 4. Integrated 5. Autonomous 5. Dependent 6. Divided/Individual 6. Community 7. Analytical 7. Meditative 8. Ideas; Theories 8. Practice

  4. Western Culture Non-Western Culture Thinking: Thinking: 9. Myths; Allegory 9. Historical 10. To Know: Dominate 10. Obedient 11. Logic = Linear 11. Logic = Block 12. Thought: Abstract 12. Concrete 13. Categories: 13. Categories: Sacred/Secular All is Sacred 14. Faith/Reason 14. Reasonable Faith 15. Symbols: Fixed 15. Dynamic

  5. Western Culture Non-Western Culture Thinking: Thinking: 16. Creeds 16. Deeds 17. Nouns/Adjectives 17. Verbs 18. Time… Linear, Prog. 18. Cycles, Cons 19. Space… Geometry 19. Space…? 20. Competition 20. Cooperation 21. Axis: Law 21. Axis: Relations Notice the differences?

  6. These Two Patterns of Thinking can also be identified with two great cultures of the past that continue to influence thinking today… Western Thought was practiced by the Greek culture. Non-Western Thought was practiced by the Hebrew culture.

  7. So what? What does any of this have to do with me? 1. The Scriptures come from Hebrew culture. 2. Modern day Science comes from the Greek culture.

  8. From the Greeks to Darwin By Henry Fairfield Osborn • 1. Thales of Miletus (640 B.C.- 546 B.C.) He declared water to be the matter from which all else arose. • 2. Anaximander (611 B.C.- 547 B.C.) The earth was first covered with water; from its gradual drying up all creatures were produced. Aquatic men first appeared in the form of fish and they emerged from this element only after they had progressed in development to sustain themselves on land. This was like a metamorphasis with the idea of survival through trying circumstances.

  9. From the Greeks to DarwinBy Henry Fairfield Osborn • 3. Xenophanes (576 B.C.- 480 B.C.) The ultimate origin of life he traced back to was Spontaneous Generation, believing that the sun warming the earth produced plants and animals.

  10. From the Greeks to DarwinBy Henry Fairfield Osborn • 4. Empedocles (495 B.C.- 435 B.C.) He believed the development of life was a gradual process. That plants evolved before animals. That the imperfect forms were gradually replaced by perfect forms. The natural cause of the production of perfect forms was the extinction of the imperfect.

  11. From the Greeks to Darwin By Henry Fairfield Osborn • 5. Plato (428 B.C.- 348 B.C.) His Chain of Being, was from the perfect to the imperfect. It was a degenerative evolution. • 6. Aristotle (384 B.C. – 322 B.C.) He believed in a complete ascending gradation in nature, a progressive development corresponding with the progressive life of the soul. His concept was of a single chain of being evolving from polyps to man.

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