Det er langt mellom så intellligente og velformulerte personar som forfattaren Marilynne Robinson. Les eit langt og flott intervju med ho i The Paris Review. Om skriving, livet, nyateistar og pai-baking.
INTERVIEWER
Are religion and science simply two systems that don’t merge?ROBINSON
The debate seems to be between a naive understanding of religion and a naive understanding of science. When people try to debunk religion, it seems to me they are referring to an eighteenth-century notion of what science is. I’m talking about Richard Dawkins here, who has a status that I can’t quite understand. He acts as if the physical world that is manifest to us describes reality exhaustively. On the other side, many of the people who articulate and form religious expression have not acted in good faith. The us-versus-them mentality is a terrible corruption of the whole culture.
Meininga er for all del ikkje å redusera intervjuet til religionsdebatt åleine, sjølv om det er kloke ord mot dei som prøver å setja opp vasstette skott mellom religion og vitskap. Nyateisme er jo heller ikkje det mest spanande temaet i høve til alle dei andre gode betraktningane ho har.
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