support of teachings characteristic of New Age? Current scientific knowledge is not as compatible as New Agers would like, with the evidence presented in support of teachings characteristic of New Age. For example, many scientists are uneasy with the tendency of New Agers to jump to unwarranted conclusions regarding the nature of reality, by unwarrantedly applying weak or only apparent analogies from physics, to the spiritual life or to the ultimate nature of reality. Another example is the way some New Agers romanticize, nonhuman life forms as harmonious and benign and castigate humankind as predatory and exploitative, not realizing that the biological sciences constantly observe predation and exploitation among nonhuman life forms. (34) What do New Agers usually say when their beliefs are considered to be contradictory to Christian teaching and current scientific knowledge? When New Agers encounter persons who do not accept their beliefs and who consider these to be contradictory to Christian teaching and current scientific knowledge, New Agers usually say that the consciousness of these persons is not yet enlightened, and that their understanding is conditioned by an obsolete cultural framework that will be surpassed in the New Age.
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