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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Greg or e who wrote (27464)10/6/2009 12:31:25 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
Look, I don't think we are able to adapt away from dogma and to facts quickly enough. Half the people just do not know how to do it and the other half do not care and some are just not very educatable. So I do not think our species will survive.

But to answer your question directly. Even if we are irrational by nature, we have learned science is not irrational, so if we learn to use science and logic we can mitigate our irrationality by testing our irrational ideas against objective experimentation; and then changing oru behavior and ideas.

So a person trying to be rational will replace their old ideas which do not have the support of science with ideas which do.

E.g. science knows we got here by evolution. We know that, yet half our population does not even beleive in evolution and just ignore the facts. So therein lies our problem.

Science knows children raised gently with lots of love and education do better than kids raised with ignorance and the belt.

But I''ll bet someone even here will challenge that-lol.



>>Sorry for taking so long to respond. I had a chance to go fly fishing in the Rockies and I just got back.

"The human species, by nature, is an irrational species."

"The ONLY chance we have to survive as a species is massive education."

Do you really expect to successfully use reason to change people who are by nature, irrational? I would attempt (using reason) to explain to you why this would be fruitless, but that would be, (granting your first premise) well... fruitless.
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