Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Getting rid of the idea of God is not easy
Its clear from western intellectual history- at least ( Take someone like Herbert Spencer or even the reactionary nature of the first humans as described in Genesis ) that non believers are always trying to get rid of the idea of God in their lives .
According to Genesis for example , this is seen to imply the objectionable idea of getting rid of the idea that God will eventually judge us.
Either way, the new idea puts a lot of pressure on the idea of Evolution. Evolution is quite clearly now responsible for everything .
Somehow Evolution has, in many unbelievers minds, got God like status . Little bit hard to believe even though we can see natural selection at work and no man has ever seen God ?
According to Genesis for example , this is seen to imply the objectionable idea of getting rid of the idea that God will eventually judge us.
Either way, the new idea puts a lot of pressure on the idea of Evolution. Evolution is quite clearly now responsible for everything .
Somehow Evolution has, in many unbelievers minds, got God like status . Little bit hard to believe even though we can see natural selection at work and no man has ever seen God ?
I have always been in awe as a professional environmentalist
at how incredibly fine tuned the things we see and work with are – well symbolised
by the recent growing understanding amongst conservationists about the reality
of resilience. The reality of resilience implies incredible intercell feedback
loops ( something that even computers
can’t invent for themselves by chance)
What a growing divide though still between what we know and what we would like to know. By digging deep, we have discovered some gold like constants to support our expectations about what controls the universe. I wonder what we will yet discover about how cells communicate. This growing solid base for life suggests a structure for freedom. Such an expanding knowledge base also suggests to me a growing smaller context for theories about everything - a smaller context for the process of natural selection and its importance in explaining things.
What a growing divide though still between what we know and what we would like to know. By digging deep, we have discovered some gold like constants to support our expectations about what controls the universe. I wonder what we will yet discover about how cells communicate. This growing solid base for life suggests a structure for freedom. Such an expanding knowledge base also suggests to me a growing smaller context for theories about everything - a smaller context for the process of natural selection and its importance in explaining things.
Labels: Evolution ., Evolution as the answer to everything
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We sometimes define a problem as "natural " so we can ignore its real causes. As the new gospel says "nothing that is natural" reflects badly on us. We can then call a problem not psychological, but physiological -we call it "a disease" .Real physiological causes for things like ADHD can thus be masked. Not clever, not precise,not scientific http://misplacedconcreteness.blogspot.com/
We sometimes define a problem as "natural " so we can ignore its real causes. As the new gospel says "nothing that is natural" reflects badly on us. We can then call a problem not psychological, but physiological -we call it "a disease" .Real physiological causes for things like ADHD can thus be masked. Not clever, not precise,not scientific http://misplacedconcreteness.blogspot.com/
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