If it's all just opinion, then why aren't we just gossiping about preferences and hunches here? — hanaH
Ultimately we gained more control of nature, fending off a serious threat. — hanaH
or example, how can being be realized? Or the Supreme Being be exemplified, or that as "culmination" of a path, or self realized? — tim wood
:up:Preferences and hunches are to be found in every knowledge system. — GraveItty
If I believe Covid is caused by a non-viral entity, then who are you to say I'm wrong? "Because you are wrong", I hear you say. And that's where you are wrong. — GraveItty
Nature gave you the gift of life. TmYou have the same attitude of the separation of man and Nature as is posed by the dogma of science. — GraveItty
I agree with Popper that creativity is crucial, so that science even grows in the soil of poetry. But we have to test those hunches. — hanaH
I don't personify nature. I am a Western personality, a child of the Enlightenment, — hanaH
It's just that focusing on the microorganisms was more effective — hanaH
"Dogma of science" strikes me as a crude phrase. — hanaH
And how do you know that? You did the investigation? — GraveItty
You don't sound pretty enlightened. As a child of it. — GraveItty
I like creativity, but I don't consider it crucial. — GraveItty
Why? Because you are an atheist, and don't like the dogmas of church? Like the church has dogmas, so does science. — GraveItty
There is even the central dogma of biology. We are just vessels of genes and memes in urge to propagate them. So it goes. — GraveItty
Now what a view! Damned, do they really think this? — GraveItty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EvolutionAll life on Earth shares a last universal common ancestor (LUCA)[10][11][12] that lived approximately 3.5–3.8 billion years ago.[13] The fossil record includes a progression from early biogenic graphite,[14] to microbial mat fossils,[15][16][17] to fossilised multicellular organisms. Existing patterns of biodiversity have been shaped by repeated formations of new species (speciation), changes within species (anagenesis) and loss of species (extinction) throughout the evolutionary history of life on Earth.[18] Morphological and biochemical traits are more similar among species that share a more recent common ancestor, and can be used to reconstruct phylogenetic trees.[19][20]
Google it. Look at some data. As mentioned, I recently read Enlightenment Now. You'd probably hate it, which doesn't make it wrong. — hanaH
I like to see how little I can do with, ride the bike with no hands. — hanaH
Is it so bad to be an animal that evolved? — hanaH
Man is that part of reality in which and through which the cosmic process has become conscious and has begun to comprehend itself. His supreme task is to increase that conscious comprehension and to apply it as fully as possible to guide the course of events. In other words, his role is to discover his destiny as an agent of the evolutionary process, in order to fulfill it more adequately. — Julian Huxley
The worldview of this book arose when the author was in his teens, and became naively enraptured with evolutionary biology. The intellectual stimulation derived from the works of Darwin and other evolutionists was pitted against that arising from reading Dostoyevsky, to a lesser extent Tolstoy, and philosophers such as Solovyov and Bergson. Some sort of reconciliation or harmonization seemed necessary. The urgency of finding a meaning of life grew in the bloody tumult of the Russian Revolution, when life became most insecure and its sense least intelligible... Whatever expertness I may possess is in ... evolutionary genetics. This is no warrant for embarking on speculations in the realms of philosophy and religion... This is not an attempt to derive a philosophy from biology, but rather to include biology in a Weltanschauung.
In other words, can personally revealed wisdom be considered truthful and authoritative?
For the purposes of this discussion, wisdom is defined as "useful and sound insight(s)".
Is personal Gnosis legitimate wisdom? — Bret Bernhoft
You sat on a podium and all that, no? — baker
It made me most uncomfortable to do so. I gave casual talks, to small audiences, several times over the years. Is that 'a position of status'? I did an MA in the subject, from which nothing material ever eventuated. — Wayfarer
I never had any kind of experience of being discriminated against or patronised by any organisation, was never really part of one.
plus i’m in Australia. Much less class oriented than many places. — Wayfarer
"Legitimate" for whom? (If only "personal", how does it differ from mere "faith" or more quixotic "solipsism"?)Is personal Gnosis legitimate wisdom? — Bret Bernhoft
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