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So, within a given historical situation, the sociology of knowledge must also correlate kinds of thought with kinds of people. 3. It is necessary to account for a body of thought by demonstrating its existential valuequestions and answers about realities, anxieties, and so onfor the people who accept it (Mannheim 1936, 1952, 197 1a, b). That last principle dovetails exactly with Geertzean anthropology; the first two insist that knowledge and belief must be situated in history and located in society.
But if truth was a simple, unified whole, then digressions, contradictory conclusions, and multiple kinds of truth were unthinkable. For this reason, the Protestant model was greatly strengthened and elaborated by three philosophical stances that each defined truth as a simple unified whole. They were the Scottish Common Sense philosophy, Baconian empiricism, and the Princeton Theology. The Common Sense philosophy arose in Scottish universities in the eighteenth century as a reaction against the specialization of knowledge.
Furthermore, the fossil forms of leaves, shrimp, tapirs, and starfish are just like today's forms, showing no sign of evolutionary change. By this point, the members of the creationist study group were beaming, enjoying every minute of their lecturer's presentation. As he neared the end of his talk, however, Mister Fossil elaborated on his personal views. Dinosaurs and humans, he said, had never lived together. " After that, the world became "without form, and void" (Gen. 1:2). The six-day creation of Genesis, according to the speaker, was consequently a re-creation of the earth and its creatures, which only then included humans.