Comments on: Religion, Science and Perspective: Let the Games Begin http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/24/religion-science-and-perspective-let-the-games-begin/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:17:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Brian http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/24/religion-science-and-perspective-let-the-games-begin/#comment-864 Brian Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:47:13 +0000 http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/?p=882#comment-864 Science is trying to find its legs on ethics. Google evolutionary psychology, experimental philosophy, and behavioral economics, or see Robert Wright's 'Moral Animal', Shermer's 'Science of Good and Evil', and Jonathon Haidt's 'Happiness Hypothesis' for examples. Science is trying to find its legs on ethics. Google evolutionary psychology, experimental philosophy, and behavioral economics, or see Robert Wright’s ‘Moral Animal’, Shermer’s ‘Science of Good and Evil’, and Jonathon Haidt’s ‘Happiness Hypothesis’ for examples.

]]> By: Jeff Carreira http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/24/religion-science-and-perspective-let-the-games-begin/#comment-863 Jeff Carreira Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:52:49 +0000 http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/?p=882#comment-863 Hello Brian, I am in Australia at the moment so I am not sure what day it is...but the 150th birthday of one of the most significant publications in human history is definately worth celebrating. And as I said Shermer has a lot of good fight left in him and lots of foes still needing to be faught. I am about to embark on some good science critical reading and as always I will attempt the use of transcend and include technology, for as I said, I for one am not ready to live without science. And in the interest of full disclosure I was a catholic kid who wanted to be a priest, then became disillusioned with religion became an atheist who studied physics and became an engineer. Then I became disillusioned with science as a way to understand ultimate reality and through myself into a spiritual search that led to Evolutionary Enlightenment and Integral Theory. Now I am backtracking and looking into Western Philosophy and loving it. And by the way, I also don't think science has a handle on ethics. Hello Brian,

I am in Australia at the moment so I am not sure what day it is…but the 150th birthday of one of the most significant publications in human history is definately worth celebrating. And as I said Shermer has a lot of good fight left in him and lots of foes still needing to be faught. I am about to embark on some good science critical reading and as always I will attempt the use of transcend and include technology, for as I said, I for one am not ready to live without science. And in the interest of full disclosure I was a catholic kid who wanted to be a priest, then became disillusioned with religion became an atheist who studied physics and became an engineer. Then I became disillusioned with science as a way to understand ultimate reality and through myself into a spiritual search that led to Evolutionary Enlightenment and Integral Theory. Now I am backtracking and looking into Western Philosophy and loving it.
And by the way, I also don’t think science has a handle on ethics.

]]> By: Brian http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/24/religion-science-and-perspective-let-the-games-begin/#comment-862 Brian Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:26:58 +0000 http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/?p=882#comment-862 Yes Michael Shermer beats dead horses but that doesn't make him wrong. And, full disclosure, I am a fan of his work. I submitted a piece for his magazine 'Skeptic'. When he - for good reason - decided not to publish it he suggested I write a review of Richard Dawkins' latest book on evolution 'The Greatest Show on Earth.' I declined because that topic has worn thin. Notwithstanding the aforementioned, today is the 150th anniversary of the 'The Origin of Species' publish date. Yipee! I'm still hoping to read a good challenge to the scientific worldview. Oh what the hell, I'll just do it myself. Look at any college curiculum and you'll see 'Liberal Arts and Sciences'. If science is complete, why study the Arts? Because science doesn't fully comprehend aesthetics. Yes Michael Shermer beats dead horses but that doesn’t make him wrong. And, full disclosure, I am a fan of his work. I submitted a piece for his magazine ‘Skeptic’. When he – for good reason – decided not to publish it he suggested I write a review of Richard Dawkins’ latest book on evolution ‘The Greatest Show on Earth.’ I declined because that topic has worn thin. Notwithstanding the aforementioned, today is the 150th anniversary of the ‘The Origin of Species’ publish date. Yipee!

I’m still hoping to read a good challenge to the scientific worldview. Oh what the hell, I’ll just do it myself. Look at any college curiculum and you’ll see ‘Liberal Arts and Sciences’. If science is complete, why study the Arts? Because science doesn’t fully comprehend aesthetics.

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