A scientist connected to the LHC experiment being interviewed these days said:the mission of science is to discover how the world ticks, the "why" is left to religion.
The phrase was of course expressed as a joke but it reflects a common wisdom among a lot of people , in a certain way, including between them even atheists .
Atheism is not ashamed to aknowledge that science up till now doesn't know,for instance, why evolution is going in one way only,why is time directed from past to future and not the oposite direction ,and so on,,
These are limits of ignorance explained from the Darwinistic point of view related to the level of evolution of the intelligence of humankind .
The problem is that science is not able at present stage to answer as well to many "how it ticks "problems ,examples are superfluous,for the same reason as above.
Now,if so, I would ask if there are limits beyond them atheism is compelled to give answers otherwise the field is left to religion .
One of these domaines is to my opnion the individul fate of humans.
Health,illness, life and death are milestones of every religion whether abrahamic or asiatic or of other continents,ever were and ever seemingly will be .
Any ignorant or stuttered answer on the fate related to these milestones is paramount to crack the door open for entrance of God ,the HG and his cohorts of saints, saint places ,miracle performers etc,,
To my opinion here is the point where atheism has to accept randomness whether purely scientific or ,bridgeing the controversy on that topic,as a practical law of mother Nature.
Randomness has a long list of synonime names such as :chance ,luck , accidental,unforseeable,improbable,indeterminancy,uncertainity principle,
stochasic events,and so on.
There may be nuance differences between these notions but the core of understanding is the same.
Now, one can not say about randomness "may be yes or may be no" neither "we don't know",because these are the limits of ignorance atheism can not permit to it self to leave open to religion, least it marks loosing points in the battle for the minds and hearts (not souls) of people,and this is what atheism is struggling for.
The phrase was of course expressed as a joke but it reflects a common wisdom among a lot of people , in a certain way, including between them even atheists .
Atheism is not ashamed to aknowledge that science up till now doesn't know,for instance, why evolution is going in one way only,why is time directed from past to future and not the oposite direction ,and so on,,
These are limits of ignorance explained from the Darwinistic point of view related to the level of evolution of the intelligence of humankind .
The problem is that science is not able at present stage to answer as well to many "how it ticks "problems ,examples are superfluous,for the same reason as above.
Now,if so, I would ask if there are limits beyond them atheism is compelled to give answers otherwise the field is left to religion .
One of these domaines is to my opnion the individul fate of humans.
Health,illness, life and death are milestones of every religion whether abrahamic or asiatic or of other continents,ever were and ever seemingly will be .
Any ignorant or stuttered answer on the fate related to these milestones is paramount to crack the door open for entrance of God ,the HG and his cohorts of saints, saint places ,miracle performers etc,,
To my opinion here is the point where atheism has to accept randomness whether purely scientific or ,bridgeing the controversy on that topic,as a practical law of mother Nature.
Randomness has a long list of synonime names such as :chance ,luck , accidental,unforseeable,improbable,indeterminancy,uncertainity principle,
stochasic events,and so on.
There may be nuance differences between these notions but the core of understanding is the same.
Now, one can not say about randomness "may be yes or may be no" neither "we don't know",because these are the limits of ignorance atheism can not permit to it self to leave open to religion, least it marks loosing points in the battle for the minds and hearts (not souls) of people,and this is what atheism is struggling for.
