Evolution, Science & Religion (Evolution)

by romansh , Sunday, June 17, 2012, 16:25 (4331 days ago) @ dhw

You say "there must be overlap and agreement. There must be unity between the various schools of thought, or, by definition, one of them is wrong." It may be that we are talking at cross purposes. In my view, there will never be unity between the schools of thought. There are many forms of understanding ... intuitive, spiritual, purely materialistic, theistic ... and while some may overlap, some cannot possible agree. How, for instance, can the purely materialistic (atheistic) and the theistic ever be unified? Yes indeed, by definition one of them is wrong ... but no-one can ever know for sure which one. That's why the debate is never ending!-I understand what Tony is saying here.
>>"there must be overlap and agreement. There must be unity between the various schools of thought, or, by definition, one of them is wrong."
I would phrase it slightly differently. If the various schools of thought don't point in the same direction then one, the other or both are inaccurate. Even if they both point in the same direction both could be inaccurate. -Having said that if we can't use reason (fallible as it is) to adjudicate the degree of accuracy of different world views, then we have taken a step away from agnosticism to the very bowels of solipsism.