[peter12]

Originally Posted by troutman

Part of being human is wanting to understand how the world works, not just in understanding "the experience of being alive" (Campbell). I think these realms overlap too, unlike NOMA (Gould):


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-overlapping_magisteria

Aristotle said that man, by nature, is a political animal. The capacity to understand the world around us is aided by the capacity to understand ourselves. The ancients believed that all men were NOT capable of this understanding, us moderns believe differently. Unfortunately, the current reductionism of science is proving the ancients correct. The current interpretation of scientific data, unaided by philosophical understanding of humanity, is completely useless to the way in which we live our lives. Darwin, by himself, gives us no context to life beyond a vague and unconvincing natural history.