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Artificial Life 人造生命

2/6/2010

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The age of artificial life has come.  The universe, including life, continues to be demystified.  Is life divinely created by God or just another physical structure subject to human manipulation?  God continues to shrink.  Paul Tillich's idea of God as "ground of being" perhaps in effect announces that science has chased God to His final refuge of a thin film of mystical "ground" under the feet of everything.

人造生命的時代來臨了。宇宙和其中的生命繼續被去神秘化。生命是否上帝神聖的創造?抑或只是另一個任人拆解和操控的物質結構?上帝繼續萎縮。當蒂利希(田立克)呼喊上帝是「存在的基礎」,他或許實在是宣告科學已把上帝驅趕到祂的最終歸宿:萬物腳下踏著的一層薄薄的神秘「基礎」。
TIME June 7, 2010 p10
TIME June 7, 2010 p10
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Holy Day today: "On the Origin of Species" published; Spinoza born. 今日大日子!《物種起源》出版;史賓諾沙出生

25/11/2009

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The day is November 24, 2009.

From the HUUmanists email list:

Remember that today is a holy day to Humanists, Unitarian Universalists, and all others who hold sacred our rapidly increasing knowledge of our own precious human nature, and especially its relation to the rest of the universe.  One hundred fifty years ago today, on November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin opened the gates of heaven with his publication of "On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life," and suddenly a great light shone down upon us all.  Our understanding of ourselves has grown rapidly ever since, is growing today, and will continue to grow forever.  Humanity will never be the same again.
David Schafer

Amen and hallelujah!
Phil

Spinoza was born on this day in 1632. 
Happy Birthday to you, Spinoza.  Another reason for a Humanist celebration.
Gordon Gamm

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Spinoza is best known for his Ethics, a monumental work that presents an ethical vision unfolding out of a monistic metaphysics in which God and Nature are identified. God is no longer the transcendent creator of the universe who rules it via providence, but Nature itself, understood as an infinite, necessary, and fully deterministic system of which humans are a part. Humans find happiness only through a rational understanding of this system and their place within it.
www.iep.utm.edu/spinoza


今日大日子!《物種起源》出版;史賓諾沙出生

十一月廿四日是大日子!

UU人文主義電郵列表有人寫道:

今天是所有認為人類知識增長是神聖的人的聖日。一百五十年前的今天,達爾文出版《物種起源》,為人類打開天堂之門,知識的大光突然普照世人。自此,人類對自己的認識突飛猛進;人類從此不再一樣。

阿門!哈利路亞!

史賓諾沙於一六三二年的今天出生。生日快樂,史賓諾沙。這是另一件值得人文主義者慶賀的事件。

(史賓諾沙提出一元論,即神與自然原為一。神不再是一超越者,創造並保守宇宙,而是自然本身,無限而必然,而人是其中的一份子。)
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Science as a Religion that Worships Truth as its God

29/10/2009

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This is an interesting perspective from an Evolutionary Biologist.  The emerging field of Evolutionary Religious Studies is fascinating too!


Science as a Religion that Worships Truth as its God
October 20, 2009 
blog by David Sloan Wilson, Evolutionary Biologist
http://scienceblogs.com/evolution/2009/10/goodbye_huffpost_hello_science

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In short, the truth is regarded as sacred within science, more than within public life, with all the obedience commanded by the word sacred in religious life. Science can even be regarded as a religion that worships truth as its god. It might seem provocative to put it this way, but I find the comparison compelling and challenge my readers to show what's wrong with it.

Here are some insights that emerge from viewing science as a religion that worships truth as its god. First, being a scientist is not natural. We evolved to adopt beliefs when they are useful, not when then they are true, so being a scientist requires resisting temptation, just as religious believers must resist temptation to achieve the ideals of their faiths. Second, the ideals of science can only be achieved by an entire cultural system. Simply exhorting people to respect the truth is not good enough, just as exhorting people to do unto others isn't good enough. Third, science as practiced often falls short of the goals of science as idealized, just as religions as practiced fall short of the goals of religions as idealized.

The third point is especially important because it means that scientists must be vigilant about keeping their own house in order before preaching to others. Anyone familiar with science knows that it is a messy process, like making laws and sausages. If only it was as simple as hypothesis formation and testing leading straight to the truth! Often science is like a bloodhound having difficulty finding the scent or running off baying loudly in the wrong direction.

A special problem occurs when all scientists are biased in the same direction. Then there is no diversity of opinion that might cause them to disagree. Everyone knows that Darwin and his contemporaries were biased by the assumptions of Victorian culture, which they didn't know how to question but we can easily recognize with the passage of time. Everyone is prepared to admit that we are also biased by the assumptions of our own culture, but we seldom make a serious effort to examine and correct for them as part of the scientific process. We should.

The fallibility of science makes arrogance one of its sins and humility one of its virtues, just as for other religious faiths. Beware of scientific emperors. They might have no clothes and that's not a pretty sight.
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Evolutionary Religious Studies
http://evolution.binghamton.edu/religion/
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