This confused me...


Although this was a cracking film I didn't really enjoy it,, why? because it questioned my beliefs and that sort of scares me.

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I am assuming you mean religious beliefs. Only a fundamentalist would see contradictions between the revelations of science and the work of God. In reality, if God exists then they are one in the same.

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you don't have to be a fundamentalist to see contradictions between religion and science; you just have to think.
if facts; ie. science, contradicts the revelations presented as truth, from god himself, through your religion/religious texts, chances are your religion/religious texts are wrong. if the earth isn't made in 7 days or is more than 10,000 years old; then that will or atleast should lead you to think about what else your book has gotten wrong. is there a heaven and hell? is there even a god?




A belief in an afterlife makes death so much easier.

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At one point the Bible talks about a circular object having a circumference 3 times its diameter. Anybody who has had high school geometry knows this can't work. The reason for the mis-statement is that ancient Hebrews knew nothing about mathemetics, which was a Greek specialty. The same goes for scientific errors in the Bible. St. John in REVELATION talked about a "door" in the sky, based on the Hebrew belief that the sky was a solid dome, and which is nonsense in an age where mankind has sent rockets into space.

But if you're going to require your believers to believe in errors because it might ruin their faith, I'm glad I belong to a different denomination.

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Faith means not wanting to know what is true.

- Friedrich Nietzsche






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I-kempson,
"it questioned my beliefs" - that is exactly why this series is so great, and should be enjoyed for that reason. Skepticism of your own beliefs is a great achievement, revel in it, don't be afraid of it.

Ric

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I am paraphrasing of course, but Bronowski himself was of the opinion that thoughtful human endeavour is about casting doubt upon things; that the need for irresistible certainties is what gives us things like fascism. One doesn't need to be a Hegelian or a dialectician to accept that living with conflicting ideas is not only possible, but probably inevitable, if one has an open mind and a modicum of knowledge.

In other words, doubt, and a sense of wonder, are good things.

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