Today I was reading in my Understanding the Times book for my worldview class. This week we're learning about what various worldviews believe about biology. Postmodernists don't like to claim one belief over another, because that would be imposing their truth on someone else. Postmodernists believe that there is no absolute truth (note that the statement, "There is no absolute" is itself an absolute). Anyway, I read this quote by Christian author Nancy Pearcey.

"I witnessed a fascinating altercation at a conference at Boston University on science and postmodernism several years ago. Postmodernist philosophers led off by arguing that 'there are no metanarratives,' meaning no overarching, universal truths. Responding on behalf of the scientists was Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg, who replied: But of course there are metanarratives. After all, there's evolution--a vast metanarrative from the Big Bang to teh origin of the solar system to origin of human life. And since evolution is true, that proves there is at least one metanarrative... To which teh postmodernist philosophers responded, ever so politely: That's just your metanarrative."

The quote goes on, but I want to stop right there. Did you catch that last statement? "That's just YOUR metanarrative." Is it just me, or is something wrong with that? I don't believe in evolution, but pretending for a moment that it's true, it applies to everybody, making it a universal 'truth'. Maybe it's just me, but that just struck me as funny.