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Often modern rational people are not aware they've surrendered their experience of meaning to the theory of evolution, where in the old days it was surrendered
by jiggywiggy 4y ago
Often modern rational people are not aware they've surrendered their experience of meaning to the theory of evolution, where in the old days it was surrendered to religion.
Often you hear modern skeptics speak like, we do things to preserve the self, or to preserve the "race".
Theories of evolving are not the same as truths of meaning.
Even though in many senses religion was more restrictive, in the search for meaning it might have given more useful answers.
Useful in the sense of practical.
- bobabob 4y agoEvolution is not a theory, it's a fact, you can see it happening.
- jiggywiggy 4y agoBoth and. Same with physics. They are theoretical approximations of the truth. They are true because they work, the times they don't we keep adjusting it. However they both don't explain all of reality, especially not human meaning seeking, so what I'm saying is we shouldnt be trying to solve the problem of meaning with a model for explaining a biological phenomenon.