I’m glad you like the usage. I was trying tothink of a good term forthe effect evolutionary biology can have about 20 years ago and that one popped into my head. I’ve been using it ever since.

Sometimes you are correct: it is philosophical naturalism that is the doctrine. But other people who are NOT philosophical materialists, and especially some new-agey whackoes also embrace evolution with astonishing, and bizarrely irrational ardor. Some pantheists and Buddhists get all worked up and ferocious about it too.

“There’s nowt so queer as folks.”