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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Life Is More Meaningful Than Mere Facts Can Convey

What exactly are we looking for? What fuels so much of the passion and intensity behind the debates over religion, the debates between religions and the debates surrounding science and religion? At the heart of these debates you will often find the issue of "knowing."

Knowing if God exists, or not. Knowing how the Universe began and if a creator was necessary, or not. Knowing how human beings "became" and what constitutes appropriate moral codes in light of that becoming. Always and again, the emphasis is on knowledge, on the certainty of understanding something, of knowing some fact and its meaning. What a tragic mistake....

Read the full story from 13.7 Cosmos and Culture blog at NPR

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