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Frederick Smith

SerPolUS_IDES on DIIGO - a longer description of the group's focus - 8 views

Service-Politics, Universal Spirituality, Inclusive/Diverse, Embracing Science SERPOLUSIDES (http://groups.diigo.com/groups/ser_polus_ides)  SerPol: Politics in Service to the greater ...

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started by Frederick Smith on 28 Dec 09 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

Why Study Humanities? What I Tell Engineering Freshmen - John Horgan - 0 views

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    it is precisely because science is so powerful that we need the humanities now more than ever. In your science, mathematics and engineering classes, you're given facts, answers, knowledge, truth. Your professors say, "This is how things are." They give you certainty. The humanities, at least the way I teach them, give you uncertainty, doubt and skepticism. The humanities are subversive. They undermine the claims of all authorities, whether political, religious or scientific. This skepticism is especially important when it comes to claims about humanity, about what we are, where we came from, and even what we can be and should be. Science has replaced religion as our main source of answers to these questions. Science has told us a lot about ourselves, and we're learning more every day. But the humanities remind us that we have an enormous capacity for deluding ourselves. They also tell us that every single human is unique, different than every other human, and each of us keeps changing in unpredictable ways. The societies we live in also keep changing-in part because of science and technology! So in certain important ways, humans resist the kind of explanations that science gives us.
Frederick Smith

CAN SCIENCE AND RELIGION RESPECTFULLY COEXIST? - 1 views

Total opposition appears to be the only relationship between science and religion admissible by "militant atheists" like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Caniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens. Las...

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started by Frederick Smith on 10 Jan 10 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

SCIENCE'S INFLUENCE ON RELIGION - Consider Homosexual Inclusion - 1 views

The interface between science and religion interests me greatly, since I define myself both as a devout Christian and as a world citizen who is deeply grateful for the scientific method and its eno...

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started by Frederick Smith on 10 Jan 10 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

Op-Ed - Robert Wright - A Grand Bargain Over Evolution - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    A non-theist argues for non-displacement of science and religion as systems of knowledge
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