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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Kaku and Hawking on Human Civilization, Life after Death, and Religion




I thought Michio Kaku's remarks were poignant and relevant to our class; his description of humanity's hoped for transition "from segmented nations that fight each other with fundamentalist ideologies to a planetary civilization that is secular, scientific, multicultural, and at peace" (33:08-33:20).

Do the above attributes--secular, scientific, etc.--leave space for religion? What do you think?

Right after Kaku, Stephen Hawking responds to questions about life after death and religion. Check that out, too!

1 comment:

  1. Certainly there's still room for Hagglund's "secular faith" but that's not religion, is it? But we could try to reconstruct the term along the lines of its etymolgy: "religare" means to bind or connect... so religion 2.0 might very well include secular faith as a binding element that holds people and peoples together AND reinforces a shared sense of mutual dependency upon one another and upon our natural abode.

    Or we could just all sing along with John Lennon, "imagine no religion..."

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