Which JUBber has been e-mailing Prof Dawkins?

[2243]

Ted Haggard has a funny mouth.

Was that the point in posting that video?

 

[Telstra]

Ted Haggard has a funny mouth.

thats what i thought too. His brain was excited with Mr Dawkins.

 

[RobinGoodfellow]

Philosophy was made obsolete by the scientific method.

How? Science doesn't explore why people do things, nor does it explore modes of behavior, outside of psychology that is. Philosophy allows us to explore new perspectives on how to think, as well as allow some value to those perspectives.

Put another way: Science gives us the facts, but it doesn't tell us what to do with those facts. Philosophy gives us that purpose.

The latter is the most superior way of intellectual reasoning in the world.

Yeah, except that it's not technically "reasoning", at least, not as our ancestors thought of it; it's a specialized form of it. It deals specifically with facts, and how to apply those facts more efficiently. It has nothing to whether or not the application of those facts is right or just.

Philosophy nowadays is for uneducated hill billys and yokels.

Too many would disagree with you, especially considering how rarified the thinking is. Sorry; but I think that too many would disagree that philosophy is unneeded. It's the needed opposite to Science; we need to consider not only whether or not facts are accurate, but the ramifications of those facts. Through philosophy we can discuss those ramifications and whether or not they are acceptable...

RG

 

[kallipolis]

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)


When we acknowledge our ignorance, we then begin the voyage of discovering our self and our purpose in being alive.