ANATOMY OF THE RELIGION

After many dramatic mutations, adaptations, and extinctions of whole sects, at the close of the twentieth century there remain only two viable Classes of religion in North America, three in Central Europe, and one in Northern Russia.

And the last two surviving Classes of religion in North America are evolutionism and creationism.

Hence, while the survivors yet breathe, the anatomy of these wondrous creatures must be described.

Otherwise, future generations will not understand the power in merely turning over these fossils of extinct faiths, even these bones of common descent and the flood.

I. S T A N D A R D S

A. ANATOMY

1. What features can be measured?

You can observe what a religion does. You cannot observe what a religion thinks--any more than you can observe what a rat thinks.

2. Cannot the courts determine intent, such as the intent to promote a religion?

Yes. But that is law. This is anatomy. Hence, this FAQ treats only the physical tools and methods that religion uses to accomplish observable acts.

3. What do religions do?

Religions perform many actions that are indistinguishable from the accomplishments of other organizations. For example, a religion might lobby for a particular piece of legislation.

B. SCOPE OF THIS FAQ

1. Where can I find information on the anatomical structures that are common between religions and other organizations in general?

You should consult freely the FAQ titled "The Anatomy of an Organization." But this FAQ you are reading investigates only those anatomical features that are unique to religion.

C. RANGE

1. Why do you focus on only the surviving religions in North America?

Later volumes will compare the anatomies of the surviving religions in Central Europe and Russia.

D. TAXONOMY

1. How can you classify a movement as a religion?

The technique is demonstrated by classifying all horsey-looking ungulates as a horse-- until some new and significant feature, such as a cloven-hoof, requires a separate category.

2. Are there not many varieties of evolutionism and creationism?

Yes. Both the Class Evolutia and the Class Creatia contain hundreds of surviving species.

II. O S T E O L O G Y -- THE SKELETON

A. THE SPINE

1. What is a working definition of religion?

A religion is any outlook that actively seeks a legal ban to silence a dissenting view in some--possibly only one--forum that the public funds.

2. Then creationism is not a religion, since the creationists have failed in their attempts to stop the teaching of evolutionism?

Often religions are not successful in their attempts to ban the speech of their opponents.

B. THE SKULL

1. Does not the First Amendment prohibit teaching religion in public schools?

No. The First Amendment prohibits only the federal government from making any law that distinguishes between religious speech and ordinary speech.

2. Does not the Fourteenth Amendment prevent state agents from establishing religion?

No. Those wishing the Constitution to prevent the states from establishing religion have failed every time they have introduced that amendment.

The Congress, including Founders of the Fourteenth Amendment, rejected nineteen times between 1875 and 1930 some form of an amendment reading: "No state shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion. . . ."

C. THE THORAX

1. What is the difference between the evolutionist religion and the creationist?

They are distinguished only by the difference in their source of absolute authority.

While the evolutionist does science by adhering to "human reason and experiment," the creationist does science by following the Creator.

2. Why do they draw different conclusions?

For both religions, once the source of absolute authority is fixed, the conclusion is pre-destined.

3. Why are the religions unable to compromise?

They have no choice in their absolute conclusions about the other religion. The evolutionist can no more tolerate the non-science of creationism than the creationist can tolerate the non-science of the evolutionist.

4. What about the Church?

The non-evolutionist and non-creationist churches are content merely to cast their vote with others. In contrast, the religions of evolutionism and creationism invoke their external absolute authority to overpower the majority vote.

5. What is the Church if it is not religious?

In accepting the decision of the majority in matters of free speech, the Church becomes undifferentiated in anatomical features from the other political players, such as positivism, democracy, and republicanism.

6. When did the Church cease to be religious?

When it relinquished the right to ban speech against the will of the majority.

III. M U S C L E S A N D F A S C I A E

A. THE CRANIUM AND FACE

1. What is a science?

A science is the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of natural phenomena.

2. How does evolutionism qualify as a science?

Part of what evolutionism does is the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of natural phenomena. Hence it is a science.

3. How does creationism qualify as a science?

Part of what creationism does is the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of natural phenomena. Hence it is a science.

4. Is all science a religion?

Whether a science is a religion is a matter of empirical observation. Has the science repeatedly attempted a legal ban on conflicting views in some public forum?

If it has, then that science is a religion. Otherwise, a science is a mere non-religious science.

5. What mutation causes a science to become a religion?

After acquiring the gene of Absolute- Certainty-in-Some-Knowledge, the science may manifest its certainty by attempting to impose a legal ban on speech within a given public room, in opposition to the will of the majority.

B. THE NECK

1. When did evolutionism mutate to a religion?

Sometime after Darwin's writing of Origin of Species because within the Origin of Species, the role of the Creator is considered in relation to all the other natural forces.

2. Is Darwin's Origin of Species a religion?

Hardly. No mere book could attempt a legal ban on speech. Hence, no book could be a religion. Nevertheless, a religion might adopt a convenient text in its attempt to work a ban on the speech of the opposition. However, merely because a religion uses a book for its own ends does not make the book a religion. A text is just a text.

3. What evolutionary process created the existing religions?

Sometime after the life of Darwin, the proto-Class of Origin Theories split into the two opposing Classes of religions-- namely, the Class of Evolutia and the Class of Creatia.

4. What other sciences might mutate under the influence of a Certainty gene?

If the science of Music similarly mutated into two religions, there might be a Class of Expunged Harmonies in opposition to the Class of Sacred Lyrics.

Similarly, if the science of Literature mutated into two religions, there might be a Class of Godless Writings opposed to the Class of Holy Devotions.

The gene of Certainty has boundless potential for mutating the existing sciences.

C. THE TRUNK

1. How are the religions of evolutionism and creationism different from a mere monopoly?

A mere monopoly seeks to become the sole- source of some product, such as oil, that the market already demands. In contrast, the religions of evolutionism and creationism seek control of the training grounds that create the new appetites of the future consumers.

2. How are the religions of evolutionism and creationism different from a mere politics?

In a mere politics, what is true or best follows from the outcome of a political process, such as a majority vote or a bureaucratic power-play. In a mere politics, what is true follows from only a vote--not an immutable law. Thus, a mere politics does not adhere to an absolute authority for evaluation of truth, accuracy, or value.

3. How does that merely political behavior differ from the behavior of the religions?

The evolutionist looks to "human reason and experiment" as the absolute authority for what is true in science. And the creationist looks to God--or to some other of her disguises.

In contrast, a mere politics looks only to the outcome of the vote of the power players. Nevertheless, any voter may invoke an external authority--but merely as a bluff to exaggerate the power of the particular voter.

IV. B L O O D - V A S C U L A R S Y S T E M

A. THE HEART

1. Is religion a superstition?

In the public fray between religions, one side or the other may ascribe supernatural powers to the other. However, many attempts to ban speech derive from righteous indignation at mere falsehood. Hence, the belief structure of a religion may be entirely factual and may contain no superstition at all.

2. Are there not more useful definitions of religion?

One definition of religion characterizes the beliefs expressed in an organization. That definition may be useful for describing historical events. But that definition is not suitable for stating testable hypotheses. One cannot use a description of an organization's beliefs to predict whether or not the organization will attempt to ban the speech of others.

B. THE ARTERIES

1. What can you predict that a religion will do?

A religion will continue to advocate the banning of the speech of some political opponent or other until the Certainty gene disappears from the population in the organization. If a religion's opponent disappears, the religion will create another targeted speech to ban from some public forum.

2. What is the source of a religion's need to ban some speech?

A religion's drive to ban derives, not from the nature of the speech that is banned, but rather from the need to keep something sacrilegious on the outside of the walls of the religion's sanctuary. Once an opponent disappears, the religion creates a new target on speech within its own congregation and proceeds to ban that speech beyond the sanctuary walls.

Accordingly, the Class of Evolutia and the Class of Creatia derived from the same Class of Theory of Origins. As a result of the mutation, the newly formed religions began the attempt to ban each other beyond the sanctuary walls.

3. Is religion detrimental to a civilized society?

While the religions battle, the real problem lies unaddressed.

C. THE VEINS

1. What underlying problem does the battle between evolutionism and creationism disguise?

Religious speech spoken within the room from which it has been banned creates fury, anger, confusion, or pain in the ears of the hearers of the opposite religion.

2. How can you identify the opposite religion?

The opposite religion is the idea expressed in the speech that is targeted for banning.

3. What happens if the speakers do not fight back against the ban?

If they do not fight back, they are not a religion. They are merely a history. Such is survival of the fittest.