abailart says: This will settle nothing, but it is a good read. The clip is a 'taster'' of an article focused on debates around evoulution and moral motivation. It ends: <<< Of course, religion doesn’t have a monopoly on awe and inspiration. The story that science tells, the story of nature, is awesome, and some people get plenty of inspiration from it, without needing the religious kind. What’s more, science has its own role to play in knitting the world together. The scientific enterprise has long been on the frontiers of international community, fostering an inclusive, cosmopolitan ethic — the kind of ethic that any religion worthy of this moment in history must also foster. William James said that religious belief is “the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.” Science has its own version of the unseen order, the laws of nature. In principle, the two kinds of order can themselves be put into harmony ...(more follows) — and in that adjustment, too, may lie a supreme good. >>> While it is rhetorically mischievous to have referred to 'fundamentalist atheists' in the clip title, there is the point to be made that there are many scientists and laypeople (more mischief!) who have no difficulty reconciling science with religion, and many whose main job is 'religion' who welcome and are immersed in the unfolding of science. Of the latter, the Dali Lama is the most famous example, neuroscience being his big interest, though, of course, he is also, and most fundamentally, the world's best known atheist. Yes let's be inspired on all fronts science and religion both seek some way of explaining this awesome power we live in. |
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