From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Wed Nov 03 1999 - 12:09:45 MST
In a message dated 11/03/1999 12:46:21 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jonkc@worldnet.att.net writes:
> M. E. Smith <mesmith@rocketmail.com> Wrote:
>
> > At the heart of existence is a mystery.
>
> That is absolutely true, but how does the God meme help?
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
Whatever Einstein was, he was never a schmuck. "Religion without science is
blind, and science without religion is lame". I would say that the utility
of God is to promote scientific evolution to the resolution of suffering and
yes, the search for extra-terrestrial intelligences--as looney as that may
be.
The funny thing is, if one extrapolates technology out far enough(time-wise)
in a speculative sense, in a David Deutsch/Max Tegmark kind of way; the
religious loons may be sort of correct. Wasn't it Jon Donne who said "A
man's reach exceeds his grasp, or whats a heaven for?"
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