THE RELATION OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION. Some fresh observations on an old problem by RICHARD P.
FEYNMAN "The Relation of Science and Religion" is a transcript of a talk given by Dr. Feynman at the Caltech YMCA Lunch Forum on May 2, 1956. In this age of specialization men who thoroughly know one field are often incompetent to discuss another. But I have been interested in this problem for a long time and would like to discuss it. I would start by presenting the panel with a problem: A young man, brought up in a religious family, studies a science, and as a result he comes to doubt – and perhaps later to disbelieve in – his father's God.
Now, since the belief in a God is a central feature of religion, this problem that I have selected points up most strongly the problem of the relation of science and religion. The first answer we might hear is very simple: You see, he is taught by scientists, and (as I have just pointed out) they are all atheists at heart, so the evil is spread from one to another.
Yes, it is consistent. Niklas Luhmann- Contingency, risk, trust and reflection. THE WORLD AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM. Sociologist Niklas Luhmann said that from the time of Aristotle to about 1800 the concept of society was almost identical with what we call social system, the encompassing system was called the political society. This conception lost its significance with the modern industrialized state. It has never been replaced with an adequate theoretical framework. Attempts to replace politics with economy or culture use a part of social reality to replace the wúhole. He suggests using systems analysis to "disclose the structure and processes which characterize the social system--the most important of all social systems which includes all others. " Social systems are self-referential systems based on meaningful communication. Society is the encompassing social system which includes all communications and constitutes meaningful horizons for further communications, Society makes communications between other social systems possible, but, since it includes all communications, it cannot communicate.
Psychological Time and the Role of Trust and Power in COMPLEX ORGANIZATION AND NIKLAS LUHMANN'S SOCIOLOGY OF LAW PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME AND THE ROLE OF TRUST AND POWER. As far as we are concerned the past exists as memories of what has already been processed by time; the future exists as expectations about what will occur later. In the four-dimensional world created In our mind we can place memories and expectations side-by-side and compare them.
In this way even though the memories may be tainted by Imagination and reverie, we can still apply reasoning to determine the rationality of expectations, at least as they refer to our conception of the past existing In our memory. With this in mind we can return to our discussion of Luhmann. He placed everything that we relate to temporally into two categories: states and events. Either, that Is to say, something can be Identified as an event, which Is fixed at a point In time and which Is unrelated to any present experience--since experience, as time advances, marches on unchecked, processing the future Into the past. A state appears as something that extends both Into the future and the past. Web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/Papers/less.pdf. Bill Nye: Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children.
Positive thinking for a cooler world - opinion - 19 August 2009. How to convince climate sceptics to be pro-environment - environment - 17 June 2012. Climate change might eventually cause millions of deaths and all kinds of natural disasters.
But don't tell that to a climate-change sceptic if you want them to do anything about it. Instead, focus on how mitigation efforts can help people become more warm and caring towards others or how it can promote economic and technological development. That's the advice psychologists give after confirming the strategy in an experiment. "I got the idea from mediation.
When people have disputes there's not much point convincing one party that they're wrong," says study leader Paul Bain , a psychologist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Bain and colleagues first took 155 climate-change sceptics and asked them how their country – Australia – would be different in 2050 if action were taken now to mitigate climate change, and how likely they would be to engage in pro-environmental activity.
He found it did. Journal reference: , DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1532 Have your say. Www.asianart.org/pdf/education/rebrand/MythandMetaphorworkshop.pdf. Social Networking Sites and Politics.