# False Ideas About Truth - Part 9 - Critique of Postmodernism and Darwinian Evolution

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Published: 2026-05-18T17:51:47+00:00
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References: (1) “The Closing of the American Mind” by Allan Bloom. (2) Roughly stated, modernism affirms the existence of ABSOLUTE TRUTHS. Postmodernism affirms the POLAR OPPOSITE: the nonexistence of absolute truths. (3) The fact that postmodernism has SUCCEEDED in uprooting modernism within an entire culture is therefore a NOTEWORTHY ACHIEVEMENT, a feat that NO OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM or religion had previously been able to accomplish. Almost everything, especially issues in the realm of moral and social VALUES, are being RECONSIDERED from the postmodern RUBRIC. Many of the conclusions now being drawn in the CONTEXT of postmodernism DIFFER markedly from the previously drawn conclusions of modernism. (4) For those unfamiliar with the term, METHODOLOGICAL NATURALISM is the human endeavor of explaining everything in terms of NATURAL CAUSES and natural causes ONLY. (5) The new conclusions emerging from within PM have shocked many people. Rather than assimilating into the new morality, some people, including Christianity itself, have begun to form a new COUNTERCULTURE. Like the OT prophets they are foretelling the impending DOOM upon Western culture unless culture turns back, repents from its DALLIANCE with PM and once again proclaims the existence of absolute truth, all is LOST. (6) Though modernism affirms Enlightenment’s idea where REASON is EXALTED, but the REAL CRUX of the issue is that SUPERNATURALISM is DENIED. (7) Can you imagine a world without measurement or weight, a world without system standards of any kind? Think what would happen if there were no alphabet, no metric system, no currencies, no time measurement. Imagine if 1+1 didn’t equal 2. A world without standards is — rather — a world in which there are many standards defined by PERSONAL PREFERENCES, h…

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