{"id":9222,"date":"2012-08-24T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=9222"},"modified":"2012-08-24T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T16:00:21","slug":"why-science-cant-replace-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=9222","title":{"rendered":"Why Science Can&#039;t Replace Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/drain-cleaning/">Buy Valium 10 Mg Online</a> In her\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Doubt-Doubters-Innovation-Jefferson-Dickinson\/dp\/0060097728\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a>\u00a0Doubt: A History, the scholar and poet\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennifermichaelhecht.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Hecht<\/a>\u00a0writes about having awe for the universe without being religious. \u00a0She talked about this during a radio\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onbeing.org\/program\/history-doubt\/51\/history\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>It seems that if you have a doctrine, a version of rationalism or a version of atheism that makes it so that you have to be worried about using the word mystery, you&#8217;ve got yourself too constraining a doctrine&#8230;But mystery, then, doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;ve got to fill in the blanks with, you know, ideas of my own imagination&#8230;if we sort of can respect these ideas and say, &#8220;Yeah, life is mysterious. It is very strange.&#8221; Just the fact that, you know, we are these animals who have these kind of thoughts, it&#8217;s all pretty wondrous, and doubters have celebrated it. And that&#8217;s the kind of doubt I want to bring into the conversation, because I think we&#8217;ve really backed ourselves into a couple of corners, and it&#8217;s time to get out.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>A similar sentiment was given\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/sometimes-science-must-give-way-to-religion-1.11244\" target=\"_blank\">expression<\/a>\u00a0in the pages of\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em>\u00a0this week. It has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/23\/nature-explains-why-science-is-like-religion-based-on-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\">not been well received\u00a0<\/a>by the high priests of New Atheism, or by many commenters at <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/div>\n<p> 
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