My minister sent this quote to campus today, and I think it could apply to science as well as religion.
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. <http://bumail.bakeru.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_tendency_to_turn_human_judgments_into_divine/195987.html> " -Georgia Harkness It is unreasonable to attribute responsibility for human behavior to religious or scientific works. Otherwise, there can be no academic freedom, no freedom of thought or speech. The kind of atrocities we are discussing are motivated by greed and the desire for power and influence, not by science or god. -Wendi Born, Ph.D. ________________________________ From: Mike Palij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 5/4/2008 6:44 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subject: [SPAM] - RE:[tips] Ben Stein on Science - Bayesian Filter detected spam On Sun, 04 May 2008 15:36:28 -0700, Louis Schmier wrote: >Tim, where the anti-defamation league is right is that nothing really >explains the Nazi's genocidal madness. Where it is wrong is that >a lot of water flowed under the bridge between Darwin and Hitler, >and the Nazis very specifically called upon science as justification >of their views. I am really trying to understand your position but it seems increasingly bizarre to me. Are you really saying that Darwin's writings and other scientific work have as their logical consequence the Holocaust? I mean, more so than than political theory that asserts that there superior and inferior "peoples" and it is incumbent upon the superior people to exercise dominion over the lesser people? Doesn't this perspective pre-date evolution or science by millenia in the social institution known as slavery? Indeed, hasn't the Bible provided the warrant for the maintenance of slavery? For example, see: http://www.religioustolerance.org/sla_bibl.htm If I follow your logic, it seems to me that it is as reasonable if not more reasonble to blame the Bible for the Holocaust, specifically in its support of the treatment of other human beings as property and, consequently, without intrinsic rights. I see a clearer connection between such a view and the Holocaust relative to the view that reality is amenable to empirical and logical analysis. -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.8/1413 - Release Date: 5/3/2008 11:22 AM --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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