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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 04/18/2010 : 10:24:44
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A priest, a scientist, and a Communist discuss morality
Skip down to the three guiding questions that Myers answered in his opening remarks about what science can say about morality. I found that his answers to the questions were pretty much spot on.
Here is one paragraph that I copied, but do read the whole thing.
| But science isn't a moral philosophy. I've proposed humanism as our tool; are communism and religion in conflict with that? And that's where the answer gets murkier, because more progressive versions of those philosophies all seem to converge on humanism, anyway. The quest for social justice is a humanist ideal, and it's also front and center in communism and liberal religion; you can be either of those and also be a humanist. I wouldn't exactly call them complementary, but I would call them compatible. |
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 04/18/2010 : 10:35:59 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
A priest, a scientist, and a Communist discuss morality
Skip down to the three guiding questions that Myers answered in his opening remarks about what science can say about morality. I found that his answers to the questions were pretty much spot on.
Here is one paragraph that I copied, but do read the whole thing.
| But science isn't a moral philosophy. I've proposed humanism as our tool; are communism and religion in conflict with that? And that's where the answer gets murkier, because more progressive versions of those philosophies all seem to converge on humanism, anyway. The quest for social justice is a humanist ideal, and it's also front and center in communism and liberal religion; you can be either of those and also be a humanist. I wouldn't exactly call them complementary, but I would call them compatible. |
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Good stuff indeed. PZ's hardly being "strident," is he? I'd like to see the whole discussion. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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PZ on Science and Morality
