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[ Donate : Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Save The Rhino ] <Prev Next> Subject: Re: Thanks for getting us back on track. ( 39 of 52 ) Posted by Bryan Right. My take on it is that the need/desire to explain is a fundamental adaptive driver of human behaviour. Religion/God provides one such explanatory paradigm (with several theories within that paradigm) while science/rationality provides another. Personally I think the god thing destroys its own argument by its reliance on external agency - if it could incorporate its political vagaries in its philosophy then it might have a chance. But pleading the word of god, then changing it because it suits your paymasters smacks of intellectual bankcruptcy. Science has its own faiths, but faiths which do allow some sort of proof - there are people struggling towards prooving the reality of certain subatomic particles. At present they exist theoretically, but in any real way only by faith. Maths == theology I suppose. But it seems the main empirical evidence for theological arguments can only be found by dying. QE-urgghhh. <Prev Next>
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