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Secular materialism is another (but related) worldview, believing that physical matter is the ultimate substance of life, out of which everything else "evolved".
The Biblical worldview tells us that the divine being is a Someone, not a Something, and that He wants to have a personal relation to His creation.
There are, in the final analysis, only two worldviews, that of the Bible and that of paganism/secularism -- although there are many cultural and personal expressions of these two ultimate choices.
Secularism is a hybrid offshoot between paganism and the Biblical worldview. It is pagan in being a closed circle (self-sufficient, with no creator God outside of itself), and Biblical in believing that the cosmos is orderly (hence science is possible) and history has meaning and direction (as with Marxist economic determinism, etc.).
The continental watershed between the two basic views is the
question whether (as the Bible says) the cosmos was created by the most
complete, full, personal, and individual being there is -- an Original Somebody,
or whether the cosmos (as the
pagan/secular view says) evolved out of the least complete, full, personal, or
individual stuff -- an Original Cosmic Soup -- sort of.
Once that distinction is understood, one can handle the worldview issues much more easily.
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