Solid point. I'm not particularly religious, but I do think that there is order in the universe. It's one of those things that theologians and scientists can adamantly agree on, considering the seeming mathematical and organized perfection of everything that science has examined thusfar. In every example where there is "chaos", there is always some set of circumstances that gives rise to a result, but it's either the lack of rigor on the part of humans or the inability of man to determine the correct formula that leads to the result. This is where a conflict lies: while there may be order, does that absolve the human race of a responsibility to gain knowledge of it and utilize it to further their position?
Let's say that we're in the extremely distant future, and we know that in the next 200 years the sun will go through it's next stage of stellar evolution. Naturally, this is going to lead to the end of the human race. Are we responsible for securing another place to habitate in, or is it acceptable to just die out? To believe that our generation's end is some end in itself without securing the future for other generations exhibits a hubris that is difficult to accept. How can we continue to just go through the motions without some telos? If the world simply exists as some testing ground for heaven, then we may as well just roll around in the mud like animals until we die. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
