John Haught, PhD - "How Much Can Biology Explain? Charles Darwin & Bernard Lonergan, SJ"

[@tedgemberling2359]

I think I have the same misgiving that the man with the purple shirt had in the question session about 1:26:58. A big part of Haught's argument is that people have to have confidence that their minds are capable of ascertaining truth. As the questioner said, the problem is we see lots of cases where people lose that ability. How do Dawkins and Dennett convince themselves they can do that? By studying the truth and finding empirical evidence they can find it. They then work with others to encourage humanity as a whole to follow the right practices for truth. I generally like Haught's idea of the "anticipatory" view of truth. But the irony is that he sort of sets science up as an authority competing with religion. He says we need to accept that mind did not come into existence until recently in evolutionary development. That actually seems a bit questionable. Quantum indeterminacy might even suggest there's an element of mind at the subatomic level.

[@paxnorth7304]

I think I'm gonna need to watch this a few times...One thing that stands out on first run...I don't hear any definition of this 'random chance' function is...

[@ALavin-en1kr]

Another thing today is the hard problem of consciousness that baffles philosophy. That it rose from biology is being questioned. Even materialists who are scientists are becoming involved in the hard problem of consciousness. In the East they equate God with consciousness; God being all there is and as consciousness being all there is, both immanent in nature and transcendent to it.

[@ALavin-en1kr]

The higher age understanding on human evolution in Eastern religion and philosophy is that there are fourteen versions of the human in a universal cycle all from and to a human prototype. This view is that there is human evolution but not from another species. This makes sense humans from another species makes no sense.

[@usmannaseer5168]

Shalom I am an orthodox Muslim and I am happy that someone is discussing the interplay of tradition and modernity Even Darwin was traditional in the sense that he married his cousin like Muslims