Actually, religion is the "father" of philosophy, and from philosophy, certain rules about thinking were born called logic, which is simply the study of effective methods of reasoning and the flaws and dangers of other methods, or "illogical" thinking.
From logic and philosophy came the ideas that birthed science, like Athena from the head of Zeus.
Each covers it's own area quite well, only running into trouble when people don't recognize their proper uses:
1) Religion covers all the things we cannot philosophize about because there isn't enough evidence to even begin to formulate an idea around; example: God.
2) Philosophy is for exploring all the things that we can discuss in general due to shared perceptions, but cannot subject to the rules of logic due to their subjectivity, or the rules of science due to their lack of repeatable phenomenon.
3) Logic allows us to test ideas that cannot be tested in a lab or through scientific research, allowing us to reason what "might" be possible, logically, and explore if it follows logically, or is based an false assumptions/premisses; or both follows logically AND is based on true assumptions/premisses, and thus MUST be true, assuming we don't get contrary data in the future.
4) Science is for repeatable, testable events. That's it.
Each serves us so well that it is a pity to see people making a religion about how "God does not exist" without proof, claiming "science" backs them up (we have yet to disprove God's existance). Or how people dismiss science as it challenges their belief systems (forgetting that all scientists, as the very basis of their training and scientific method, accept that every FACT they present today may be disproven tomorrow, and they'd cheer, as they're searching for reality, not a convenient fiction). Or how people make scientific theory (Darwin) into a club (Darwinism) to attack religion, or religious contemplation (about Creation vs. Creationism) into a club to attack science.
Silly.
We all use all four, admitting to it or not. We have beliefs, and hypotheses about reality based on our experiences, and arguments about the nature of reality based on reason, and things we know are true because we have repeatedly tested the reality of them.
Can't we all just get along and STILL have free speech?
Nope. But some of us will get it. Let the others, the opposite sides have their free speech. They have the right, too. Bless them for speaking up.
So will we. And if any of you find the truth about what you believe, and can explore it philosophically to find out all the aspects of it necessary to come up with a logical argument for it's truth sufficient to convince people that it is repeatable, and testable, and have proceded to do so and found it "good", then...
...please let the rest of us know. We want it, too.
2006-06-08 15:25:16
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