Archimago wrote: > Well, I'm no rabbi or priest, but I do think there is a place for -faith > in one's life-. And hopefully in doing so, a better society. > > However, we do have to know the limits of faith. I see faith as giving > us motivation, inspiration, drive, dreams, sense of morality and > ultimately purpose. But these are high level subjective concepts along > the lines of "what's your favourite musical genre?" or "what's your > favourite book?" or "describe the most joyful thing you have ever done" > or "who do you love most in this world?" Perhaps science can one day > elucidate the neural mechanisms for these concepts and ideas, but until > then, nothing wrong with maintaining the wonder and joy around these > subjective intangibles of what gives us our -personalities-. > > I think in a nutshell, this is Stephen Jay Gould's "NOMA" > (Non-Overlapping Magisteria) concept as he puts it in the book '\"Rocks > of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life\"' > (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/034545040X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=034545040X&linkCode=as2&tag=archsmusi-20&linkId=ZJ6SDFEMUJRKBRVC). > Give to God what is God's and Science what is Science's... (At least in > terms of framework for understanding and ways of knowing "truth".) > > And I think it's pretty fair to say that sound quality as rendered by > technological machines is well within the "magisterium" of Science. :-)
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