Faith Demonstrated in Taxonomy

November 4, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Faith Demonstrated in Taxonomy

The debate over faith and a belief in a higher power managed to bring a perfect example of taxonomy to clarity. This interesting, thoughtful and somewhat humorous topic was inspired by the article, “Haught v. Coyne: The Debate of the Century (Not)” on Evolution News and Views.

Whether you are a spiritual person, believe in a God or fall into some level of ambiguity on the theology subject, the author in the article brought to life the taxonomy of atheists. This not only amused and intrigued me, but brought my two worlds crashing together.

The taxonomy is a hierarchical view of a controlled vocabulary or a list of terms in their preferred form. A taxonomy and thesaurus are often used interchangeably. So whether you use believer, Christian, follower or atheist, it is all part of a taxonomy.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.