looks like some Scottish cadrinal is pretty reductionist, thinking that messing around with genes might damage our souls
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7308224.stm pretty reductionist DM > I'll add a comment to my own post, using something David M said on > another forum, that ties in with - "the same paradoxical path" > referred to. > > To paraphrase DM > "Both scientific rationality and christian theistic tradition are > equally reductionist / simplistic when it comes to explaining the > whole of reality. Neither has a monopoly on being wrong." > > Discuss. > Ian > > On 3/20/08, ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Excellent edition of "In Our Time today" on Kierkegaard >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080320.shtml >> >> [QUOTE] >> It's also fascinating that he saw the two great teachers, Socrates and >> Jesus Christ, as eschewing the same paradoxical path towards truth. >> It is open to speculation what he would have thought of the influence >> he had on the atheistic Jean-Paul Sartre. >> >> But it always came back to Christianity. Kierkegaard knew that it did >> not make sense. It was a challenge to reason and that was the >> magnetic mystery of it because there was, undoubtedly, truth in it. >> It's an awful pity that Dawkins could not have been around then. >> Perhaps even more of a pity that Kierkegaard could not be around now. >> [UNQUOTE] >> >> Regards >> Ian >> BTW - for those who have trouble with these on-line links - humour me >> - go to the "Podcast" page and right-click on the "Download Episode" >> link and "Save Target", or whatever equivalent Mac users have to do. >> > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
