06.18.10
Physicists smart at physics, otherwise stupid???
. . . the public discourse is so badly distorted that it has little relationship to the real issues. Instead of taking the natural world seriously, we have discussions about “Faith.” We pretend that questions of meaning and purpose and value must be the domain of religion. We are saddled with bizarre, antiquated attitudes toward sex and love, which have terrible consequences for real human beings.
I can understand scientific frustration with faith, but the sad reality is that ‘faith’ is quite at work in the promotion of Darwinism.
The sad reality is that scientism is worse than religion, and muddles everything it touches, most of all ethical understanding, in the promotion of useless fictions from population genetics to explain ethics and evolution.
So Caroll might stop preening his feathers and ask why physicists are smart at physics, and stupid on everything else.
Stephen said,
June 18, 2010 at 6:24 pm
The deeper issue beneath faith is trust. And the close relation between faith and trust gives trust a bad name. The question is: can we trust each other? The answer seems to be no! And with trust gone there is no truth that comes in the name of scientism.
Trust has to do with our ability to accept self-evidence at the deepest level. Being unable to accept self-evidence gives faith, and even science, over to fools. Deeper trust reveals ethics and spirituality, it gives us strenght to accept the deepest disclosures that reveal themselves. Otherwise, we see only what fools want to see.