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“…But he then aims to turn the tables on the theist by claiming that the conditions requiring the exercise of such courage 'are more likely to be encountered in a Darwinist than a providentialist world'. 27 Living life with no assurance that it will be worthwhile, calls for more courage, as Holland sees it, than doing so with the belief that all will ultimately be redeemed. I have already indicated, in the long passage just quoted, that I think this misconstrues the mindset of the believer: theistic faith is not a species of naïve optimism about the future.…”

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While finding no fault with Darwinism as a scientific theory, this paper argues that there are serious problems for the scientistic construal of Darwinism that interprets the universe as nothing but a purely random and contingent flow of events. Life in a godless impersonal universe is beset by contingency, alienation, despair, failure and fragility. Notwithstanding Alan Holland's claim that we can evade these problems though self-affirmation, I argue that human beings can achieve meaningful lives only by acknowledging our dependency and accepting the authority of values we did not create.

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