The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
Contesto: There is, however, a much more convincing argument that needs to be put on the table before we really begin turning common sense upside down. It is the overwhelming reason to prefer science to ordinary beliefs, common sense, and direct experience. Science is just common sense continually improving itself, rebuilding itself, until it is no longer recognizable as common sense. It is easy to miss this fact about science without studying a lot of history of science—and not the stories about science, but the succession of actual scientific theories and how common sense was both their mother and their midwife.
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“No moral code is right, correct, true. That's nihilism. And we have to accept it.”
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
Contesto: Scientism starts with the idea that the physical facts fix all the facts, including the biological ones. These in turn have to fix the human facts—the facts about us, our psychology, and our morality. After all, we are biological creatures, the result of a biological process that Darwin discovered but that the physical facts ordained. As we have just seen, the biological facts can't guarantee that our core morality (or any other one, for that matter) is the right, true, or correct one. If the biological facts can't do it, then nothing can. No moral code is right, correct, true. That's nihilism. And we have to accept it.
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
“Biology is usually a lot more fun than physics. It's a lot easier to understand, and there's sex.”
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
The Atheist's Guide to Reality (2011)
