Word: evolutionism
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Without cultural exchange, without some breaking down of cultural barriers, there can be no evolution of the broader American culture. This is a difficult process. It threatens the dissolution of core cultural values; it threatens the replacement of traditionally held values for non-traditional ones. Most of all, it means...
We all bear part of the responsibility for forging a new American culture that better reflects our shared values, just as we all bear some responsibility for the perpetuation of cultural isolationism. Cultural isolationism is untenable. But cultural evolution can only happen through the dangerous, difficult task of integration.
In an hour-long whirlwind discussion of postulates, theorems and axioms to make your head spin, the participants dissected everything from the big bang to evolution. The debate centered on the question of whether or not there is a benevolent creator.
Duraiswamy and Kirchhoff were more than happy to debate the fine points of DNA and argued that complexity itself can arise from evolution and is not itself evidence of a creator.
Morrison used the issue of race as a springboard for a discussion of the evolution of relations between white women and black women in literature.