A fully human life, in the natural sense of the term, has an average span of sixteen years. That’s the environment we were designed to live in- nasty, brutal, and full of misery. By the standards of a typical human tribe, the Holocaust would have been notable for killing such a remarkably small percentage of the population. Why on Earth would we want to follow that example?
In a lot of ways we don’t have a shared vocabulary. When I said fully human life I was not using this in the natural sense. Our understanding of humanity is different. I see man as made in the image of God. You see man as just another animal that is a product of evolutionary mechanisms. I guess the closest secular term that I can use to convey what I am saying is Maslow’s self actualization but transcendent.
Yes, for a very good reason- it does not work. If you stand in front of a truck, and you have faith that the truck will not run you over, and you hope that the truck will not run you over, your bones and vital organs will be sliced and diced and chopped and fried. The key factor in survival is not lack of hope, or lack of faith, but lack of doing stupid things such as standing in front of trucks.
Sure God is not going to change natural law just because we are putting him to the test. Twelve poor followers of Christ were able to convert the Roman empire. I have a hard time believing the virtue of hope was not involved. I could go into the lives of the saints for other examples but I wont.
This is not what we mean by “biased”. By “bias”, we mean bugs in the human brain which lead us to give wrong answers to simple questions of fact, such as “What is the probability of X?”. See http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/tom/?p=30.
You call the getting to the probability of nuclear war a simple question? Why doesn’t love lead to bugs in the human brain that leads us to wrong answers?
In a lot of ways we don’t have a shared vocabulary. When I said fully human life I was not using this in the natural sense. Our understanding of humanity is different. I see man as made in the image of God. You see man as just another animal that is a product of evolutionary mechanisms. I guess the closest secular term that I can use to convey what I am saying is Maslow’s self actualization but transcendent.
Sure God is not going to change natural law just because we are putting him to the test. Twelve poor followers of Christ were able to convert the Roman empire. I have a hard time believing the virtue of hope was not involved. I could go into the lives of the saints for other examples but I wont.
You call the getting to the probability of nuclear war a simple question? Why doesn’t love lead to bugs in the human brain that leads us to wrong answers?