--- In [email protected], "tanhlnx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "tanhlnx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > UK biologist Dawkins says "Believing in God is like believing in a > > teapot orbiting the moon"... > > > > http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002086.html > > Some scientists say that removing religion or God from their life > would leave it meaningless, that it's God that gives meaning to life. > > "Unweaving the Rainbow" specifically attacks the idea that a > materialist, mechanist, naturalistic worldview makes life seem > meaningless. Quite the contrary, the scientific worldview is a poetic > worldview, it is almost a transcendental worldview. We are amazingly > privileged to be born at all and to be granted a few decades -- > before we die forever -- in which we can understand, appreciate and > enjoy the universe. And those of us fortunate enough to be living > today are even more privileged than those of earlier times. We have > the benefit of those earlier centuries of scientific exploration. > Through no talent of our own, we have the privilege of knowing far > more than past centuries. Aristotle would be blown away by what any > schoolchild could tell him today. That's the kind of privileged > century in which we live. That's what gives my life meaning. And the > fact that my life is finite, and that it's the only life I've got, > makes me all the more eager to get up each morning and set about the > business of understanding more about the world into which I am so > privileged to have been born. > --- End forwarded message ---
If this is the way it is, then after one dies does it matter that they lived in the first place? RAC To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
