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Originally Posted by HarryT
We are humans, just as dogs are dogs and aardvarks are aardvarks. I don't personally think we are anything "special" - we are simply primates who took an evolutionary path, about 7 million years ago, which led to what we happen to be now. It could have happened to any species; it just happened to be us. I think it's quite monstrous egotism to suggest that we hold some "special position" in the universe  . |
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Originally Posted by taosaur
I think the "religion" position is viable if you set aside bias regarding the truth or falsity of specific beliefs and consider the fundamental activity underlying both religion and language. Both arise from encoding our perceptions as a body of symbols. Aside from rare, transcendent experiences and enlightened beings, we only engage reality via perceptual frameworks built out of interlocking symbols, whether or not those frameworks are religious in character.
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This is a very religious approach to science
