Einzelposting: atheistisches Kinderbuch

Von:    Leysan 22.04.2008 23:11 Betreff: atheistisches Kinderbuch [Antworten]

Grob gesagt, ich bin mit den Aussagen des Buches einverstanden, wobei ich kein Theologe bin um beurteilen zu können inwieweit die Informationen über die Religionen stimmen. Aber das ist ja auch nicht das Ziel des Buches, man hätte genauso gut die Religion des Fliegenden Spaghettimonsters und Unsichtbaren rosafarbenen Einhorns nehmen können. Ich bin dagegen Kindern Märchen als Wahrheit zu verkaufen, ob nun Gott oder Osterhase. Ist es nicht unverantwortlich ihr Vertrauen so zu misbrauchen? Das ist meine Meinung. Hier ein paar Zitate von Richard Feynman, zum Nachdenken:(aus Wikipedia) Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true. The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty damn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty — some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain. Now, we scientists are used to this, and we take it for granted that it is perfectly consistent to be unsure, that it is possible to live and not know. But I don’t know whether everyone realizes this is true. Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question — to doubt — to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained. I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and in many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here, and what the question might mean. I might think about a little, but if I can’t figure it out, then I go to something else. But I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.