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Letters
Letters
Religion vs Science Preempted • The Spray Can of God • Be Not Nice to the Nasties • Two Perfect Letters • Probably Philosophy • Don’t Believe In Me • Be Happy Together • Right to Coerce • How To Do Philosophy?
Religion vs Science Preempted
DEAR EDITOR: Sociology has useful insights to bear on the nature of the science versus religion debate. Of all the sciences it will probably have the final word on the human condition. (“They were very busy” springs to mind.)
However controlled modern life may appear in matureWestern democracies, it is but a construct of our technological age. Like a Frisbee, it seems to an observer to have direction and stability, but we can only take it on trust that any perturbations are manageable because we are aware that as individuals we can author little or no change.
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