RE: Theory number 3.
October 25, 2012 at 12:29 pm
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2012 at 12:30 pm by Cyberman.)
(October 25, 2012 at 11:12 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Science works, but we also need "art", we also need "morals" and I feel we also need "God".
Something of a non sequitur there, I feel. Science isn't supposed to, and doesn't, replace those things; though the last one is so obviously out of place in that list that its inclusion needs a hell of a lot of supporting. Why do we need "God"?
(October 25, 2012 at 11:12 am)MysticKnight Wrote: We need to have a sense of pride and science won't tell us the value of our being.
That strikes me as being rather like throwing away, say, a microscope when it won't tell us the price of a tin of baked beans. It shouldn't be expected to tell you such things and so can hardly be dismissed as limited or blinkered.
Science is a startlingly broad term anyway, covering a vast range of disciplines and fields, many of which we use every day of our lives without thinking. For instance, when we look at a rainbow, we depend on such things as refraction of light, optics, the principle of stereoscopic vision etc, all of which come into play automatically, behind the scenes, to let us admire the etheral beauty of the rainbow.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'