https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/...-obsolete/
KEY TAKEAWAYS: As we come to understand the Universe to better precision and more comprehensively, many questions which were previously pondered by philosophical and religious thought-leaders grow to have definitive answers. However, the information we possess within our observable Universe is now, and will always be, finite and limited, implying that there's a fundamental limit to what's knowable. As long as we remain curious about the unknown and the unknowable, there will always be a place for philosophy and religion both, independently of whatever becomes scientifically known. Here's why... (MORE - details)
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Cynic's Corner: Heh. It's a done deal that they will endure even more so than before. Since the politicized offshoots of continental philosophy (18th & 20th century French philosophy with Marxist philosophy skewering in between) are incrementally taking science over at the administrative policies and educational levels. Which over time is also a backdoor to religious and folk beliefs creeping in (like indigenous creationism) as part of the thought orientations of marginalized population groups and oppressed non-Western cultures. Science is a sinking ship loaded with many politically snoozing practitioners who ironically won't even be "woke" as to what's transpiring until they're too engulfed in the water to escape or protest.
KEY TAKEAWAYS: As we come to understand the Universe to better precision and more comprehensively, many questions which were previously pondered by philosophical and religious thought-leaders grow to have definitive answers. However, the information we possess within our observable Universe is now, and will always be, finite and limited, implying that there's a fundamental limit to what's knowable. As long as we remain curious about the unknown and the unknowable, there will always be a place for philosophy and religion both, independently of whatever becomes scientifically known. Here's why... (MORE - details)
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Cynic's Corner: Heh. It's a done deal that they will endure even more so than before. Since the politicized offshoots of continental philosophy (18th & 20th century French philosophy with Marxist philosophy skewering in between) are incrementally taking science over at the administrative policies and educational levels. Which over time is also a backdoor to religious and folk beliefs creeping in (like indigenous creationism) as part of the thought orientations of marginalized population groups and oppressed non-Western cultures. Science is a sinking ship loaded with many politically snoozing practitioners who ironically won't even be "woke" as to what's transpiring until they're too engulfed in the water to escape or protest.