http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_wood_could_a_woodchuck_chuck_if_a_woodchuck_could_chuck_wood
thought it might be worth checking out.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Drinking the Kool Aid
I think the course has made me more sympathetic to the religious,
and slightly wary of those who fervently subscribe to
secularism/science.... It seems as if there's no impartiality to
either side, and the only way people will ever open themselves up to
such discourse (in a serious way) is to honestly listen to not only
theists and atheists, but everyone else in-between....
Maybe understanding the agnostic's perspective on spirituality and
science might shed some light on the conflicts and reconcilation
upon which this topic rests.
Reading authors like Roughgarden and Gingerich have diswayed me from
taking the religious seriously, while Dawkins and Hitchens unnerved
me with their dogmatic satire (actually Dawkins more than
Hitchens.... he actually makes it quite entertaining). Are they (the
atheists) fighting against religion or the existence of God? Is it
one in the same? Does denouncing what religion has done to the world
diminish the potentiality of the metaphysical?
I think the religious might need to persuade others (as Lane said),
through morality and emotionality. Not focusing so much on tradition
or ritualism, but instead connecting through the spiritual and
mystical experiences commonly shared.
I don't know what that would accomplish, but it might give skeptics
room to take believers somewhat seriously in this neverending debate
I think at the beginning of this course I started skeptical of
religion, but now I am truly skeptical of both. My ears are open to
both sides now, I'm just waiting to hear what they have to say.
--- In sciencereligion@yahoogroups.com, "marinating7"
wrote:
>
> has anyone had a change of heart regarding thier feerlings toward
> religion after all we have learned?? any comments?
>
and slightly wary of those who fervently subscribe to
secularism/science.... It seems as if there's no impartiality to
either side, and the only way people will ever open themselves up to
such discourse (in a serious way) is to honestly listen to not only
theists and atheists, but everyone else in-between....
Maybe understanding the agnostic's perspective on spirituality and
science might shed some light on the conflicts and reconcilation
upon which this topic rests.
Reading authors like Roughgarden and Gingerich have diswayed me from
taking the religious seriously, while Dawkins and Hitchens unnerved
me with their dogmatic satire (actually Dawkins more than
Hitchens.... he actually makes it quite entertaining). Are they (the
atheists) fighting against religion or the existence of God? Is it
one in the same? Does denouncing what religion has done to the world
diminish the potentiality of the metaphysical?
I think the religious might need to persuade others (as Lane said),
through morality and emotionality. Not focusing so much on tradition
or ritualism, but instead connecting through the spiritual and
mystical experiences commonly shared.
I don't know what that would accomplish, but it might give skeptics
room to take believers somewhat seriously in this neverending debate
I think at the beginning of this course I started skeptical of
religion, but now I am truly skeptical of both. My ears are open to
both sides now, I'm just waiting to hear what they have to say.
--- In sciencereligion@yahoogroups.com, "marinating7"
>
> has anyone had a change of heart regarding thier feerlings toward
> religion after all we have learned?? any comments?
>
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