Interesting discussion in A&P yesterday of the Varieties of [Religious/Scientific] Experience, and their point of convergence in Carl Sagan's appreciation of WJ's longing to get back home. "Carl admired James's definition of religion as a feeling of being at home in the universe." What else is experience finally for, if not to acclimate us to our abode?
The human abode, Dewey called it. Wherever we go, there we are. Wherever we are, there we go. Here we are. This is us, this natural world, this secular universe. The religious dimension of life here, on his view, embodies a "common faith" embracing nature and culture, anchoring us to the universe and to one another. Supernature can be dispensed with... (continues)
Well, if Genesis was written to be taken literally, who was the reporter/recorder of these events? Who witnessed the making of the dry land? How did they record their observations 6000 years ago and preserve them until thousands of years later?
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