Re: faith

Posted by Roger Critchlow-2 on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Faith-tp7580633p7580761.html

http://www.nature.com has provoked its own discussion on faith.  In August: 

Sometimes science must give way to religion http://www.nature.com/news/sometimes-science-must-give-way-to-religion-1.11244 arguing "why it will always be necessary to have ways of understanding our world beyond the scientifically rational" and setting off a long chain of online comments.  The author, an atheist, compared the Hindu cosmologies portrayed on friezes at Angkor Wat and the explanation of the Higg's Boson given in the New York Times.

This week: three short published responses:

Rationality: Evidence must prevail http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7417/full/489502d.html  "[...] the rational thought that underpins science provides us with a system that works."

Rationality: Science is not bad faith http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7417/full/489502e.html "Viewing temples and falling in love can be moving experiences, but they don't reveal a hidden reality whose articulation eludes science."

Rationality: Religion defies understanding http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7417/full/489502f.html "Our species has derived many things from its various religions — some fair and noble, others foul and destructive — but understanding is not one of them."

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