Posted: Mar 01, 2012 8:49 pm
Oldskeptic wrote:Why is it that people brilliant in one field of their lives are continually quoted in other fields? Who fucking cares what Einstein thought about "God"? He was a science geek with a big head in more ways than one.
I think the basic reason is to seek to undermine an icon of methodological naturalism to shunt a positive calim that science cannot answer the really important, deep, big question, like why are we here and what is our purpose. For this we are generally told that to 'truly' understand the world and our place in it we need a little less of the cold, hard, facts of science and a little more of the profound, meaningful and/or significant thingamabobs and whatnots of 'spirituality'...
