Without God

In his celebrated 1837 Phi Beta Kappa Oration at Harvard, titled "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson predicted that a day would come when America would end what he called "our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands." His prediction came true in the twentieth century, and in no area of learning more so than in science. This surely would have pleased Emerson. When he listed his heroes he would generally include Copernicus and Galileo and ... Full Story »

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Patricia L'Herrou
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by Patricia L'Herrou - Oct. 1, 2008

i enjoyed this essay very much. the writer is certainly not denigrating religion or belief, rather is expressing a personal perspective on religion and how in his opinion science can lead to religion's weakening. i agree with much of his discourse, yet myself think that we still need a god to justify our choices for what we believe is goodness over self-absorption. that need creates the need he mentions to warn ourselves about false religion or its trappings, a greater danger now perhaps than ever before.

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