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deacon_sephiroth

(731 posts)

11. and I think that's the point of the day (week? month? century?)

Reply to cleanhippie (Reply #7)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 01:24 PM

Dec 2011

Yet another thread is up top today asking for ONE SINGLE example of posative religious contribution to our advancement as a people, a species, society, planetary stewards, etc.

Yet another thread is silent...

I share whole-heartedly in my desire to see a world devoid of dogmatic wish-thinking as an excuse for ignorance and intellectual complacency, though I have little optimism for it.

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Setting human limitations... [View all] Humanist_Activist Dec 2011 OP

Thanks tama Dec 2011 #1

I view religion as a mental phenomenon... Humanist_Activist Dec 2011 #2

Mental and social phenomena tama Dec 2011 #3

The difference is that science is self correcting, to account for human fallibility... Humanist_Activist Dec 2011 #15

Self correcting tama Dec 2011 #20

And that's why I don't use faith to describe my confidence in those things... Humanist_Activist Dec 2011 #25

Based on previous experience tama Dec 2011 #27

Science can't answer everything... Eliminator Dec 2011 #4

Clearly religion can never replace science. rrneck Dec 2011 #6

I don't think science will replace religion... cleanhippie Dec 2011 #9

Absolutely. rrneck Dec 2011 #13

+1 cleanhippie Dec 2011 #8

which is why it's the God of the gaps deacon_sephiroth Dec 2011 #10

God of the gaps tama Dec 2011 #14

Glad to see the name Henry Drummond mentioned in this forum a quite amazing man. Leontius Dec 2011 #21

In your attempt to discuss human limitations you raise 2 spurious issues: fear and religion. Jim__ Dec 2011 #5

Plato's Sophist tama Dec 2011 #16

Well, apparently, we can understand the world we live in through "other ways of knowing" cleanhippie Dec 2011 #7

and I think that's the point of the day (week? month? century?) deacon_sephiroth Dec 2011 #11

Many examples have been given tama Dec 2011 #18

I am really confused here. cbayer Dec 2011 #19

Since we seem able to design machinery to significantly expand the ability of the brain rrneck Dec 2011 #12

I think the only limits on our capabilities are those imposed on us by the laws of physics... Humanist_Activist Dec 2011 #17

I'd like to join your "cautiously optimistic" view of the world, and MarkCharles Dec 2011 #22

I don't think religion will go away, rather I think its influence on society will steadily... Humanist_Activist Dec 2011 #23

Good thoughts there! I don't object to people getting together on Sundays MarkCharles Dec 2011 #24

I agree wholeheartedly how dare someone think they are right the arrogant bastards Leontius Dec 2011 #26