(August 7, 2013 at 4:11 pm)Locke Wrote: If we really want to find answers to the questions we have, or find direction in our lives, can we really look it up on the Web? How do we know the person who wrote a wikipedia article has a better answer to the existence of God than we do? If God is just a projection of our psyche, then we can find every answer we need by asking google. In that case God wouldn't be worth seeking in the first place.
The nice thing about the internet is that it puts so much information at our fingertips. Not satisfied with the answer you got from Wikipedia? No worries, there are 14,552,187 other sites listed in response to your search.
Granted, 14,502,655 are porn sites. And the downside of the internet is that a lot of the information you find isn't reliable. But it beats flipping through book after book at the local library, and it's probably just as reliable as your superstitious next door neighbor. Yes, the one that keeps telling people about his experience being anal probed by little green men from Jupiter.
How different is it, getting information via a Google search or by checking Wikipedia references versus talking to a friend who probably got his information from the internet and his gossipy know-it-all aunt?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
