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Ethics and Morality
Public Group active 1 year, 4 months agoNow that humans can do just about anything they want, including manipulating matter, nature and life, what should we do, and why? A separate but related question: is it possible for humans to discuss morality without it leading to an overwhelming urge to kill each other?
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Ethics and Morality 1 year, 6 months agoIs it a good idea to commingle science and religion? Or does it just go down that unfortunate road where some people try to turn religion into a science, and others try to turn science into a religion. The latest development is the creation of the “Turing…[Read more]
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I find the religion/science controversy deeply muddled, so deeply muddled that I don’t know where to start so I will dive in:
Religion vs Science
For those who believe in an omnipotent God it seems perfectly open to them to hold that the universe was created 10.000 years ago or 10,000 seconds ago. But whenever they feel the right moment was, it…[Read more]
On reflection and with a bit of time on my hands, I’d like to elaborate on two of the topics above.
On Genesis Literalists
Typically Creation Science is portrayed as a rejection of evolution. I think that this misses an important point. Not merely id Darwin to be thrown out, but the universe as we know it too.
When we look at the night sky we…[Read more]
Scientific Reductionism (cont’d)
Similarly, if we mark one corner of the block of marble (any corner will do), and adopt a convention that makes left and right come first, forward and back come second and up and down come third, then by specifying a collection of triples of numbers corresponding to positions measured from the corner, how far…[Read more]
mr rumsfeld is famously quoted regarding the constraints of knowledge; we know what we know, we know what we don’t know, but there are things we don’t know we don’t know. that’s a misquote but close. I wonder if science (as well as religous doctrine) can be considered the height of arrogance by enlightenment thinkers. Clearly the optimism of…[Read more]