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In reply to the discussion: Neil deGrasse Tyson destroys argument for intelligent design [View all]hunter
(38,334 posts)He assumes at least one human vanitiy: That humans are intelligent.
I measure humanity by our art, essentially our stories. Science is an art too.
Is it a good story you live by or a bad story? I reject the Fundamentalist "bad" stories of any god's "chosen people;" of violence, of threats of violence or "eternal damnation." I despise ignorance. Innumeracy and incuriousity are a plague among humanity.
All stories are metaphors, they have to be, even science. The universe is very big, the human mind is very, very small.
Science is my favorite art, one I'm well trained in. But it can't "explain" most things. We humans simply settle into the metaphors we are comfortable with. In science those somewhat validated by the "scientific method" and various sorts of evidence. In other arts there are many traditions, "schools" of dancing, music, painting, sculpture, language, architecture, etc.
I'm especially interested in evolutionary biology. The evidence for it is wonderful and overwhelming. Anyone who can't find joy in those explorations, or in the explorations of the astronomers, or physicists, or chemists... they live in a very small, dark world.
The religious Fundamentalist hate the more expansive arts and sciences and philosophies; they strive to make their own various brands of hell everyone's reality.
The only good argument in my mind against Creationism or Intelligent Design is that it's mean, small, and ignorant.