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This thought struck me (in another thread):
Good is what is good for society. Constructive versus destructive. Civil and criminal laws are not enough. Training while young is needed. That is the task of religion. Would people accept a pseudo-religion that had no God but had a strong set of morals? Would those morals be effective if the morals had no "cosmic judgment" (ie God)? Could atheists found such a pseudo-religion? Would it catch on?
Can Humanism take the place of religion? Is it not too vague and wishy washy? If religion is abolished, will humanism lead us to extinction?
An example: If scientists are humanists that believe man is moist robot with no soul, then it seems to follow that there is no moral inhibition to replacing man with metal/silicon artificial intelligence. If scientists do this before they have solved “the hard problem” of consciousness, this might be an experiment doomed to failure.
Another example: Geneticists tinkering with Lifecode and it gets out of hand.
And a third example:
Businessmen who have no reluctance to engage in practices that could destroy society as long as it makes them rich. Bankers specifically. And armament manufacturers.
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"The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and the evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before." "Evolution and Ethics" T.H. Huxley (1893) |
This thought struck me (in another thread):
Good is what is good for society. Constructive versus destructive. Civil and criminal laws are not enough. Training while young is needed. That is the task of religion. Would people accept a pseudo-religion that had no God but had a strong set of morals? Would those morals be effective if the morals had no "cosmic judgment" (ie God)? Could atheists found such a pseudo-religion? Would it catch on?
Can Humanism take the place of religion? Is it not too vague and wishy washy? If religion is abolished, will humanism lead us to extinction?
An example: If scientists are humanists that believe man is moist robot with no soul, then it seems to follow that there is no moral inhibition to replacing man with metal/silicon artificial intelligence. If scientists do this before they have solved “the hard problem” of consciousness, this might be an experiment doomed to failure.
Another example: Geneticists tinkering with Lifecode and it gets out of hand.
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http://ift.tt/1pzUlBj We're beginning to practice intelligent design. That means that instead of doing this at random and seeing what happens over generations, we're inserting specific genes, we're inserting specific proteins, and we're changing lifecode for very deliberate purposes. And that allows us to accelerate how this stuff happens. |
And a third example:
Businessmen who have no reluctance to engage in practices that could destroy society as long as it makes them rich. Bankers specifically. And armament manufacturers.
via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1UdA1m5
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