The world as it should become? Overpopulated because many religions oppose
birth control? So many religious ideas are based on assumptions about how
the world is now that they oppose any actions that would make the future
better. James Watt was Reagan's Secretary of the Interior and expressed the
view that it was only necessary to conserve resources until the Lord
returned, although he did admit that since he didn't know how soon that
would be, perhaps we should conserve enough resources to keep the
intermediate generations going.
There are certainly some religions based on the idea of continuous
improvement in the world, but this is not how I would characterise all of
them, or even the majority of them.
Bill Silvert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren W. Aney" <[email protected]>
To: "'William Silvert'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: quinta-feira, 13 de Maio de 2010 4:18
Subject: RE: [ECOLOG-L] Science and Religion Dogmatic conflict? Re:
[ECOLOG-L] evolution for non-scientists textbook
How about: Science is trying to discover the world as it is, religion is
trying to develop a world as it should become.
Warren W. Aney
(503) 246-8613
-----Original Message-----
From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Silvert
Sent: Wednesday, 12 May, 2010 14:50
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Science and Religion Dogmatic conflict? Re:
[ECOLOG-L] evolution for non-scientists textbook
My preferred definition is that science is about seeing the world as it
is,
religion about seeing the world as we would like it to be.
