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How to Tell Right from Wrong
“Morality is herd instinct in the individual.”- Friedrich NietzscheWe are forever asking our children if they can tell right from wrong, but I wonder if we can do as much for ourselves? The problem with the question is that it assumes “good” and “bad” to be objective, and it assumes that human beings have the power and the insight to tell the two apart. The situation is further complicated by requiring right and wrong to be lasting constants, unchanged by the passage of time or changes in societal structure.
Science and the Supernatural: Converging and Conflicting Mythologies
When the Catholic Church was first faced with evidence that the planets of the solar system travelled round the Sun and not the earth they were faced with a choice. To accept the revolutionary but nonetheless accurate theory propounded by the Florentine Galileo Galilei, or to reject it and cling to their own outdated vision of the world. They chose the latter.
