The Spiritual Mind
02-07-2012
, 08:13 PM
Quote:
From Amazon....
'McCauley argues that religion has existed for many thousands of years in every society because the kinds of explanations it provides are precisely the kinds that come naturally to human minds. Science, on the other hand, is a much more recent and rare development because it reaches radical conclusions and requires a kind of abstract thinking that only arises consistently under very specific social conditions. Religion makes intuitive sense to us, while science requires a lot of work.'
Cliffs: Religion seems easy so it's correct. Science is hard man so it can't be correct.
'McCauley argues that religion has existed for many thousands of years in every society because the kinds of explanations it provides are precisely the kinds that come naturally to human minds. Science, on the other hand, is a much more recent and rare development because it reaches radical conclusions and requires a kind of abstract thinking that only arises consistently under very specific social conditions. Religion makes intuitive sense to us, while science requires a lot of work.'
Cliffs: Religion seems easy so it's correct. Science is hard man so it can't be correct.
I thought the quote was science was "unnatural" not "incorrect". Unnatural and incorrect are very different meanings.
The scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. Are methods/techniques "natural"? Or are they man made?
