. . . well said . . . religions and all ideological systems serve a human need. They evolved to provide common answers to "the meaning of life." In doing so, they serve the human social-group need for a sense of community and to bring people enough unity that they can cooperate to solve...
If everyone liked the same flavor, it would not be necessary for the icecream shop to have so damned many flavors. How many flavors should we have if everyone wants another one? Would some 6 billion flavors do for some 6 billion people? We humans need enough uniformity to be able to get along...
That seems to say that I say that only my interpretation of science merits a place in humanity's future.
Of course! Is it wrong to believe your own understanding of science is the most accurate and, hence, best for our future? I think what you mean is that it is best for our future when social...
Yes. People believe in their religion because it is emotionally their support. It provides a sense of community, security, and an ability for those united by it to cooperate and solve common problems. We have evolved as small groups primates and have both a functional and emotional need to feel...
Pehaps our mutual misunderstanding comes from your apparent assumption that we humans need to believe in "spirits" to have immagination, creativity and happiness. I personally see no connection at all between them.
Our secular doctrine of diversity is that people of all other religions should be introduced to our secullar doctrins and way of life but their own cuolture and religion be treated with respect---also, the it is good/beneficial for the world to be so diverse. In other words, our system promotes...
Why do you think that we, as the human race, should be more and more diverse? "Diversity" has become a secular ideal and doctrine only because the West has to praise it in order to keep its waining influence over the world. Diversity is growing not because of genetic differences or because all...
What is this "one religion which might not be called a religion?" Are you referring to our secular ideology? "Religions" (ideological systems) are geographic because people have to live in some sort of geographic area and need some sort of ideological way of thinking in common so they can...
You already believe in a science ideology. You believe in your secular ideology with its doctrines of "freedom," "democracy," individualism, the "free-enterprise system," and achieving "the American Dream." That secular ideology shapes how we all think and, therefore, makes us think anything...
Yes, there is no such thing as "truth" in science. Its just an old-religion word. How could something be "more true" than something else?" And what would happen if we ever finally did achieve "truth"? Would we no longer need science because we had come to finally know everything?
What we and...
You can hardly be criticized for believing that when you consider Nazism, Fascism, and Marxism. On the other hand, note that each of them failed, Marxism as well; it is no longer Marxian and only survives in China as a one party capitalistic system. What has happened is that they have all...
The data will become more accurate and more voluminous. Dawkins' atheism won't be disproved by that, but his rationalizing about religion, ignoring its social evolutionary function (which social theorist's also rationalize about) and his inability to really explain why religions (ideological...
All civilizations have had the growth of knowledge and improved technology. Ours has also achieved that. Also, all past civilizations became more humane as they matured. And each of the past civilizations also spit ideologically when their science outpaced their finally aged ideological system...
Its just terrible! Poor women who want to leave their children to work cannot do so without equal pay. They go into nursing, health care fields because they miss being the way women naturally are, and seek such caring fields even though in them wages are less. Women engineers and mechanics are...
It has been shown that those biologists of the National Academy of Science include a larger percentage of atheists than in any other scientific field.
What Dawkins is, also, is a social theorist. That is, he is one who tries to take the data from all of the other social and natural science...
I agree that humans are the authors of religions, but what strikes me is they do not change over time. The basic doctrines of Christianity to Fundamentalists are the same as those of the Reformation and the Catholic doctrine is the basic same. What I see is that it is this rigidity of belief...
It is one of the doctrines of the Bahai faith that there be a tolerance of the other faiths. It is also doctrine that the Bahai faith can bring them together. It is not happening though. A few years ago, Hindus tore down a Muslim mosque into rubble. The Western (Christian) world is at war...
a good point! New religious come, but they too get old and, in turn, they also have to be replaced. . .
For example: The social and economic problems of the Greek-Roman world are analogous to our own. The problems finally drove the people of the Roman Empire to abandon their old belief...
Surely it has occured to you that when you move, it is generally because you willed your body to do it. Anthropological evidence is that our brains have changed very little in the last forty to two hundred thousand years. It would have been probable that such an awareness became known and spread...