EXISTENTIAL MEDITATION ON SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND SCIENTISM 2019-01-19 + The science within faith: science and skepticism’s place within religious subcultures, which some (especially fundamentalists) see as corruption. ÷ The faith within science: the faith in retrospective science (especially if time flows both ways), uniformity, the law of averages, and reduction. × The place for scientists of faith (including fundamentalists and atheists). = The cases for and against stealing, lying, cheating, killing, torture, rape, terrorism, and warfare (especially as expedients). > The problems with sampling, rounding, uncertainty, ridiculous inference, cultural biases (like racism), and no randomizing being available. # Dreading nihilism and absurdity: Looking for a cozy hole in the Void left when God died (see: behaviorism, Holocaust). $ You are “here" and then “after” that where? % The perils of omnipotence, omniscience, and one-stop shopping: considering the source of evil and sufferi...
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