1. Basic situation as I see it is this, God got it in the neck for the following reasons: a. Kant reduced demonstrations for his existence to a shakey moral inference. b. Philologists shredded the Bible so the text became unstable c. Voltaire & co mocked the inconsistencies.
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6. We also know we have some capacity to make our own values and shape our environment—though this is itself cosntrained by cognitive biases, evolution and, ultimately, physics.
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7. So that’s what man is at the moment: We’re without God, without the idea of truth, stuck with provisional models that might be completely subverted by our ambivalent relationship to truth and our own biological biases.
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