God 3 0 Purpose—like, we know?

Cryptic thoughts signalling intention

I think one is either all in on one's beliefs (dogmas) or not. I'm concerned with the reality that religion and science are essential things.

I'm confused about Stephen J Gould's nonoverlapping magisteria.

Science (the institution, the methods, the tools) is not metaphysics. The philosophy of science is not a religion. Religion concerns faith. How many truly, dogmatically religious scientists are there?

Could there be any way that an Orthodox Bishop could reconcile his beliefs with science?

What is the one true faith? Every faith has its rationale and arguments that have to be taken on faith. How must we define truth? Logic is not always in the service of truth.

Can deeply religious people reconcile with the theory of evolution and other established theories within science?

It seems to me that religious debates can never be settled because the quality of their lines of evidence.

A Conversation with Plantinga, A Scientist and a Philosopher

PLANTINGA: "If our brains were the product of naturalistic evolution, then our cognitive faculties would more likely be garbage than anything reliable!"

SCIENTIST: "Oh, they are complete garbage since they're a product of evolution. Look, this lady just bought a timeshare. And this dude keeps repeating the same mistake because he can't admit he was wrong the whole time."

PLANTINGA: "Oh uh... I was hoping for some more pushback."

PHILOSOPHER: "Why?"

PLANTINGA: "Well... that way, I can show that a belief in evolution and in the ability of human reason to attain truth are incompatible."

PHILOSOPHER: "That seems dumb. We already know the ability of human reason to attain true statements is fraught with difficulty. That's precisely why our job as philosophers is to document all the bad reasoning we've uncovered throughout the millennia so we don't make those same mistakes."

SCIENTIST: "Same with science! Self-correction and identifying errors come with the job!"

PLANTINGA: "But then you're saying humans can't possibly perceive reality accurately!"

PHILOSOPHER: "Noumenal reality? Of course, we can't. Kant said as much. And he also gave us a roadmap as to how we nonetheless construct rational statements within the scope of phenomenal reality (i.e., reality accessible through human sensory experience)."

SCIENTIST: "And since we can't perceive reality as it truly is, we build tools and machines that detect and quantifies things outside of our narrow perceptual range and translates the data to something we CAN detect. Look! I built a system that detects protein concentrations at one part per trillion in a plasma sample! It expresses the concentration via a logarithmic relationship to nanoparticle count!"

*philosopher and scientist share a high-five*

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