Since not all personal conversions lead to fundamentalist views of the Bible, it would be preferable to emphasize a more universal tendency as the origin of conservative zeal: the human quest for absolute certainty. (religion-online.org)
Despite the almost universal tendency to treat the second - and third century materials as evidence that the authors of the canonical Gospels ruthlessly suppressed traditions about Mary Magdalene, the truth may be simpler: the canonical Gospels preserve all the early traditions. (religion-online.org)
But no one yet has been able to show that it actually has the ability to overcome this universal tendency, and that is the basic reason why there is still no bona fide proof of evolution, past or present. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)