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 Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:27 am Post subject: Of "What Is" and "What Ought to Be"... |
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Any account of the human condition that reduces the human spirit to an accidental by-product of evolutionary pressures tells less than half the story of who we are. We may be — on this, the Bible and neo-Darwinism agree — “dust of the earth”, the reconfigured debris of exploded stars. But within us is the breath of God. Scientists call this “emergence”: the process whereby systems of self-organising complexity yield something new, more than the sum of its parts. That is where religion and science both began: when life became conscious, then self-conscious, then able to ask the question: “Why?”
The current argument between “religion” and “science” is deeply unnecessary. It involves a caricature of religion and a parody of science. It is structured around a set of absurd oppositions, between science and superstition, reason and revelation, knowledge and wishful thinking, as if scientists and religious believers were incapable of realising the limits of their respective domains. We need both: science to tell us how the world is, religion (and philosophy) to tell us how it ought to be...
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-- This is from a thought-provoking article in today's London Times. The rest can be found at this link;
http://tinyurl.com/ysgtym
-- If any of you would like to discuss this, please feel free to do so!
Ron
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