I have sorted him out. I am pretty sure one is true and one is not. https://twitter.com/Wandering_Raven/status/929435827784044545 …
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If you are talking about the difference between Newtonian mechanics and the story of Adam and Eve, you're talking about entirely different types of "truth".
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Newtonian mechanics allows you to predict things in the physical world reliably. Parables and other religious writings contain truths that tell us things about ourselves.
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Yes, stories do. Everyone accepts this, I think. Even those most dedicated to science can be moved to tears by an affecting story.
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But this is not truth. Its subjective human meaning that call to our moral emotions and aesthetic sensibilities. The danger is in confusing these.
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Yes. I keep thinking of @G_S_Bhogal's wonderful piece where he identifies the prophetic-apocalyptic one underlying Jihadism.https://areomagazine.com/2017/09/04/the-fundamentals-of-fundamentalism/ …
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