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What? Nobel winners and moon travelers have espoused religious ideas and talked of God, creation, and conversion. So, education is not really a factor (not ev
by nutcracker46 7y ago
What? Nobel winners and moon travelers have espoused religious ideas and talked of God, creation, and conversion. So, education is not really a factor (not even if you expand the sample size to include moderately educated and non-elite people).
- hunta2097 7y agoYes, you can be spiritual to an extent. That's very different from the gods described in most religious texts. It's becoming pretty clear how everything since the big bang came to be.
- hprotagonist 7y agoI’m not amazingly fond of Gould’s “two magesteria” idea (the bell curves overlap more than he’d like to admit), but: religion is not and never really has been primarily concerned with how. It’s larger concern is why, and even more than that, given existence: how then should we live?. Since “religion” seems to be shorthand for “the religions of abraham” in common discourse, it’s worth noting that, e. g., Genesis was not written as a text on cosmology. It’s a text on ethics, and to a fairly large extent, it’s also a ~5th century BCE political document. To willfully read it “literally” is just wrong-footed, though it’s very common among christian fundamentalists and new atheists alike.