<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "I'd guess you cited the bonobo as evidence against
> my speculative suggestion that humans may intuit
> "orderliness" and that this intuition may be a
> source of their sense of ethics."
>
> No, I liked what you wrote. I should have said so to avoid my post
> sounding like a refutation.
>
> The bonobo's forgiveness rituals are the behaviors that I found
> fascinating.
> It seemed to be evidence that forgiveness is necessary to allow
> primate cultures to exist,
> rather then something taught to man by religious thought.
Makes sense to me. The idea (if you can call it that
in a bonobo) survives because it *works*.
> I appreciated your phrase: "I wouldn't
> rule out that it comes from an inherent "orderliness"
> (in the very-big-picture sense) from which the
> universe emerged and which humans intuit. "
>
> I think that can be appreciated from a wide variety of religious and
> non-religious perspectives.
Indeed it can. Personally, if I couldn't appreciate
it from a nonreligious perspective, I wouldn't entertain
it at all.
It's part of what's behind the *original* notion of
"intelligent design" before the fundies got hold of
it. Don't need no Designer; it's just something
embedded in the nature of the cosmos.
Or not. In any case, it isn't anything that belongs
in a science curriculum.
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