(A post script to my frustrated rant replying to this thread (not to
this post, Roger))
None of what I said precludes the table pounding and the whiskey.
Need to go on record about that.
Tory
On Sep 26, 2012, at 2:02 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
http://www.nature.com has provoked its own discussion on faith. In
August:
Sometimes science must give way to religion http://www.nature.com/news/sometimes-science-must-give-way-to-religion-1.11244
arguing "why it will always be necessary to have ways of
understanding our world beyond the scientifically rational" and
setting off a long chain of online comments. The author, an
atheist, compared the Hindu cosmologies portrayed on friezes at
Angkor Wat and the explanation of the Higg's Boson given in the New
York Times.
This week: three short published responses:
Rationality: Evidence must prevail http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7417/full/489502d.html
"[...] the rational thought that underpins science provides us
with a system that works."
Rationality: Science is not bad faith http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7417/full/489502e.html
"Viewing temples and falling in love can be moving experiences, but
they don't reveal a hidden reality whose articulation eludes science."
Rationality: Religion defies understanding http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7417/full/489502f.html
"Our species has derived many things from its various religions —
some fair and noble, others foul and destructive — but understanding
is not one of them."
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