RE: Dawkins and Determinism
February 14, 2013 at 1:54 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2013 at 2:01 am by naimless.)
(February 14, 2013 at 1:41 am)Finn Wrote: Not everyone can handle existential nihilism, which follows from a naturalistic worldview.
Indeed. Considering the 13.7 billion years of the universe blows my mind every day. I don't gaze in the wonder of it, but rather watch people from afar that don't think about these things.
I find it is detrimental to my health, and wouldn't wish it upon another. But experiences are relative, so this isn't even the significant thing that I don't understand.
What gets me is that, if evolution is to be believed, then we evolved to be suicide bombers and soldiers and lone gunmen, as much as we evolved to be heroin addicts and smokers and herb tokers, as much as we evolved to be christians and muslims and atheists...
Plenty of scientists explore their fields and do not tell others they are wrong about their personal views, however fucked up they are. It just strikes me as odd that someone with a deterministic view could blame someone else for religious ignorance, indecision, intolerance, or incapability of understanding.
