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Testing Your Worldview
Does it fit the facts?
Does it have contradictions?
Is it useful in life?
The most important part
of a worldview is to make
sure it really works in
practical applications. To
help learners explore this
concept further, take one
or two worldviews and
apply the tests to them.
For an example of a
contradictory worldview,
share secular humanism's
stance on ethics, known
as "moral relativism."
Moral relativism states
that there are no abso-
lutes. In other words,
it contradicts itself by
stating absolutely that
there is no such thing as
an absolute.
Another example is the
"naturalistic" worldview,
where people believe
only what they can
perceive in nature, so
thoughts and feelings
are just the result of how
the cells in our brains are
firing. People with a natu-
ralistic worldview believe
in evolution.
