Comments | silentpalms: I <3 this woman.

silentpalms

I <3 this woman.

Jul 09, 2006 15:38

Will physics ever be able to tacker the biggest questions - for instance, why does the universe even bother to exist?

Science is not religion. We're not going to be able to answer the "why" questions. [...]

This sounds like your formula for keeping science and religion from fighting with each other.A lot of scientists take the Stephen Jay Gould ( Read more... )

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martian_aries July 9 2006, 20:02:37 UTC

What a smart lady. :-)

I beg to differ if I may anonymous July 10 2006, 05:24:42 UTC

Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that's a good way to live.

On one hand my company’s belief might not be really wrong, the 2 presidents are nice people, and the members are not forced to believe. On the other hand we can’t ask American consumers to wait for something for >= 2 years when they might have other options. We can't ask that!

Re: I beg to differ if I may silentpalms July 10 2006, 15:18:24 UTC

...? What?

Could "anonymous" clarify what you're trying to say? And, preferably, not be anonymous next time?

Re: I beg to differ if I may anonymous July 12 2006, 15:28:29 UTC

When I said other options I really did not see any recent suitable possibilities if I know our customers well.

Re: I beg to differ if I may silentpalms July 12 2006, 22:29:18 UTC

1. Who are you?
2. What are you trying to say?

troglodyteking July 10 2006, 20:00:56 UTC

Although I think this is true enough in many cases, I find this too be too simplistic:

"This might earn me some enemies, but in some ways they may be even more moral. If you do something for a religious reason, you do it because you'll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That's not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons.Many people's religious conceptions are of the 'I do this because I want a good afterlife', a carrot-and-stick (heaven-and-hell) motivation. But many religious perspectives are more nuanced than that - they see the religiously ordained morality as simply a statement of truth, as what one should (in a categorical or 'this is how it is meant to be' rather than a 'mom says I should' sort of way) do as a human being / immortal soul / whatever. Or there is the concept of love of God - a perspective where heaven or hell is besides the point because one feel such love for God that one is compelled (or at least wants to, even if one fails a lot) to do good because he asks it. Or even there ( ... )