"Based on this graph here you can see that the intellectual democratization brought about by the global decentralization of information technology as it permeates every facet of our culture through the nano-bio-info-cogno revolution will leave religious thinking extinct by 2100."
As the way of all things, what effect do you suppose its question, knowledge, understanding and application by billions of persons will have on the state of global economics, science, the humanities, education, government and business?
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The underlying law of nature is the most important subject any person can investigate, learn about, proceed to understand, and then come to personally apply throughout life.
So many assumptions on my positions in these responses, all wrong of course. Study some scientific theory first, then add some philosphy on top and start thinking outside the constrains of natural science as the all explaining idea. Organized religion is a poisonous as the ensnaring fabric spun by the ruling disciples of positivism and reductionism. It will never explain it all. Most of our brilliant scientists knew this of course.
Most intellectuals are against organized religion, historically, the Dark Ages are a fine example of a time when organized religion had absolute power and with it- achieved absolutely nothing. Maybe the burning of the Library of Alexandria, if you want to call that progress.
Spiritual beliefs and practices are classically thought to be irrational, superstitious, and otherwise false and there is data that confirms the more educated one is, the less religious (mainline religion), because reason and knowledge substitute the psychological needs of religion, however knowledge has not replaced the social needs for religion- not yet anyway.
Beyond noting that science has not destroyed spiritual beliefs...it has actually fostered the fundamentalist religious boom, for it has removed many traditional psychological props while creating, in its technical applications, a host of new problems...nuclear catastrophe, chemical and biological terrorism, pollution, unease about new development s in biotechnology...In the face of these new anxieties religion offers.. support -Anthropology The Human Challenge 11th edition Haviland
It's funny how the most intelligent people in the world are also atheists. So, the people who use their brains the most efficiently don't believe in god.
You would think the theists of the world would put two and two together...
Like Newton, Planck, Einstein, Kepler, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Copernicus, Tycho Brae, Steno, Descartes and so forth.... who all believed in god in some way or shape.
I strongly disagree, especially in regard to Einstein. Many of these individuals' ideas of a "god" was very abstract.
Einstein is actually on record as being a NON believer in a "personal" god. In other words, he believed in a sort of harmony and togetherness in the universe. However, as far as a bearded man in a robe floating in the sky, answering prayers and such... he DEFINITELY and clearly dismissed that. Even a 5 year old should be smart enough to dismiss that...
This is a known quote from Einstein himself - it's noted all over the internet:
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
They were hypocritical slave owners who locked their wives in basements during their menstrual periods and talked about freedom - highly intelligent behavior wouldnt you say?
It would be hilarious if he added some line like
"Based on this graph here you can see that the intellectual democratization brought about by the global decentralization of information technology as it permeates every facet of our culture through the nano-bio-info-cogno revolution will leave religious thinking extinct by 2100."
RawhardDickins 1 year ago
THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF ALL:
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What is the underlying law of nature.
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As the way of all things, what effect do you suppose its question, knowledge, understanding and application by billions of persons will have on the state of global economics, science, the humanities, education, government and business?
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The underlying law of nature is the most important subject any person can investigate, learn about, proceed to understand, and then come to personally apply throughout life.
TedDGPoulos 1 year ago
So many assumptions on my positions in these responses, all wrong of course. Study some scientific theory first, then add some philosphy on top and start thinking outside the constrains of natural science as the all explaining idea. Organized religion is a poisonous as the ensnaring fabric spun by the ruling disciples of positivism and reductionism. It will never explain it all. Most of our brilliant scientists knew this of course.
nakedhand 2 years ago
Yes he believed in god in a Spinozian way.
Which is why I wrote "who all believed in god in some way or shape. " Maybe you did not read that.
It certainly does not come across very intelligent to say the most intelligent people are atheist. Where is your proof of this relationship?
nakedhand 2 years ago
Most intellectuals are against organized religion, historically, the Dark Ages are a fine example of a time when organized religion had absolute power and with it- achieved absolutely nothing. Maybe the burning of the Library of Alexandria, if you want to call that progress.
Shadowstar204 2 years ago
Spiritual beliefs and practices are classically thought to be irrational, superstitious, and otherwise false and there is data that confirms the more educated one is, the less religious (mainline religion), because reason and knowledge substitute the psychological needs of religion, however knowledge has not replaced the social needs for religion- not yet anyway.
Shadowstar204 2 years ago
Beyond noting that science has not destroyed spiritual beliefs...it has actually fostered the fundamentalist religious boom, for it has removed many traditional psychological props while creating, in its technical applications, a host of new problems...nuclear catastrophe, chemical and biological terrorism, pollution, unease about new development s in biotechnology...In the face of these new anxieties religion offers.. support -Anthropology The Human Challenge 11th edition Haviland
Shadowstar204 2 years ago
It's funny how the most intelligent people in the world are also atheists. So, the people who use their brains the most efficiently don't believe in god.
You would think the theists of the world would put two and two together...
siciliano29 2 years ago
Like Newton, Planck, Einstein, Kepler, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Copernicus, Tycho Brae, Steno, Descartes and so forth.... who all believed in god in some way or shape.
nakedhand 2 years ago
I strongly disagree, especially in regard to Einstein. Many of these individuals' ideas of a "god" was very abstract.
Einstein is actually on record as being a NON believer in a "personal" god. In other words, he believed in a sort of harmony and togetherness in the universe. However, as far as a bearded man in a robe floating in the sky, answering prayers and such... he DEFINITELY and clearly dismissed that. Even a 5 year old should be smart enough to dismiss that...
siciliano29 2 years ago
This is a known quote from Einstein himself - it's noted all over the internet:
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
siciliano29 2 years ago
I think you are being overly selective. There were and are extremely intelligent people who believe in God. How about the founding fathers of the US?
RubberWilbur 2 years ago
They were hypocritical slave owners who locked their wives in basements during their menstrual periods and talked about freedom - highly intelligent behavior wouldnt you say?
Shadowstar204 2 years ago