Re:The Folly of Scientism
by bendmorris on Saturday December 08, 2012 @05:24PM
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How do traditional religions helps us to understand the world? Claims without evidence don't help to increase understanding.
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> Claims without evidence don't help to increase understanding.
Where is your evidence for this?
Humor aside, this is absolutely not the case. Traditional religion stems from human intuition, a natural sense of reality that was shaped my many, many years of evolution. A process of trial and error.
Trial and error, of course, is the natural equivalent of the scientific method. Continuous iteration and refinement.
If anything, our intuitive sense is more refined than our sense of reason and tells us much about the world around us that our capacity for reason simply does not.