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 suffering.
• Is it science, or is it political philosophy?
• Is it religion, or is it yet more political philosophy?
• What about Progress...? Mo' better blues?
• Seeking answers.
• Seeking evidence.
• The biology of hope and despair.

--- JASON LINDSAY CROCKETT ---

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