Not exact matches
everything in the
universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time
of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands
of years ago, the scientific method
of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds
of them,
then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds
of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific
knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth
of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process
of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.
read up on quantum mechanics and tell me that sounds more realistic
then the notion
of a being
of superior
knowledge manipulating the elements
of earth to create sentient man... its a logical fallacy... if we can do what we can do in a
universe four billion years old, simple statistics demands than someone else would have done it beforehand, especially if we had «evlved» so drastically in a cosmic blink
of an eye, as the prophet richard dawkins likes to put it.
If science does not investigate the purpose
of the
universe,
then the
universe effectively has no purpose, because a purpose
of which we can have no
knowledge is meaningless to us.
And
then he concludes:» [A] s
knowledge of our
universe matures, that ancient awestruck feeling
of wonder at its size and duration seems inappropriate, a sensibility left over from an earlier age.»
Hence, insofar as instantiations
of Spirit, namely, ontological totalities
of various kinds up to and including the
universe as a whole, are structured like Whiteheadian societies,
then absolute
knowledge such as Hegel envisions as a result
of his own philosophical system is metaphysically impossible.
If you want a complete overall view
of the Halo
universe then the Essential Visual guide isn't the book for you, but coupled with the Encyclopedia it makes a formidable source
of knowledge.
«Growth can only be new, for awareness is the ever - changing adjustment
of the human psyche to chaos,» Noguchi said in his artist statement for the 1946 MoMA exhibition «Fourteen Americans,» continuing, «If I say that growth is the constant transfusion
of human meaning into the encroaching void,
then how great is our need today when our
knowledge of the
universe has filled space with energy, driving us toward a greater chaos and new equilibriums.