The popularity of science is diminishing, few and far between are the politicians with a scientific background, yet its importance in society has never been greater.
The creationist are challenging in some schools the idea that evolution really occured the scientists responded, as was covered by the New Scientist, with a conference in the US regarding whether science could replace religion. Richard Dawkins feels that they should go on the offensive... that Scientists should come out as it were.
As important in the same issue were the signs of how science is reaching further into our lifes and minds helping us understand the human brain and behaviour, how in analyzing the minute the miniscule they are beginnging to change how we look at reality, impacting subject such as philosophy, psychology, economics.....
What does this mean?
I am always reminded of the Khmer Rouge and how they massacred anyone educated... the killing fields... scienists have always challenged the status quo, but what Dawkins is doing? Questioning whether religion should be usurped whether it should exist...hmmmm?
My reading isn't as comprehensive as i would like in this area, and i hope to change that over the next few months.. but could perhaps the greatest conflict of the future will not be between, the West and Islam but between those that believe and those that don't?
There was a piece in the New Scientist discussing if you don't believe, then you lose your connection with eternity... which can perahps be replaced with your atoms being reused and being transferred so in a way you do......hmmm........
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