Religious Metaphors: Mediators Between Biological and Cultural Evolution That Generate Transcendent Meaning
Abstract. Humans can be described as existing somewhere on a descriptive continuum between the poles expressed by the metaphors “humans are machines” and “humans are animals.” Arguments for these metaphors are examined, and the metaphors are rejected as absolute descriptions of humans. After a brief...
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