Au sujet du conflit science-religion, il y a à
http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/transcript/wein-frame.html
une interview du physicien Steven Weinberg (Nobel 79).
En voici deux courts extraits qui me paraissent bien pensés.
QUESTION: What do you think about this new dialogue between science and religion that’s taking place now?
MR. WEINBERG: I know there's been a lot of talk about a reconciliation between science and religion, of ending the old conflict. And in a way it's a good thing. Certainly science in trying to get public support doesn't need to have a conflict with religion going on at the same time. In another sense I tend to deplore it. I think that part of the historical mission of science has been to teach us that we are not the playthings of supernatural intervention, that we can make our own way in the universe, and that we have to find our own sense of morality. We have to find our own sense of what we should love. And I would hate to have those gains made by science vitiated by a misguided reconciliation with religious life.
QUESTION: Do you think religion has value?
MR. WEINBERG: I think there's much to be said on both sides of that. I mean, certainly religion has produced great art. Where would architecture be without the great cathedrals and wonderful Japanese temples, and mosques.
On the moral side, however, I'm less sure about it. Certainly good causes have sometimes been mobilized under the banner of religion, but you find the opposite I think more often the case. It's more often been the motivation for us to kill each other - not only for people of one religion to kill those of another, but even within religions. After all, it was a Moslem who killed Sadat. It was a devout Jew who killed Rabin. It was a devout Hindu who killed Gandhi. And this has been going on for centuries and centuries.
I think in many respects religion is a dream - a beautiful dream often. Often a nightmare. But it's a dream from which I think it's about time we awoke. Just as a child learns about the tooth fairy and is incited by that to leave a tooth under the pillow - and you're glad that the child believes in the tooth fairy. But eventually you want the child to grow up. I think it's about time that the human species grew up in this respect.
It seems to me that with or without religion good people will behave well and bad people will do evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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J'aime beaucoup le dernier paragraphe.
Cordialités,
Denis
P.S. Ton pseudo (présumé) de Platecarpus a longtemps été une énigme pour moi, jusqu'à ce que je tombe sur le site http://www.gate.net/~mcorriss/DP3.html .
Maintenant, chaque fois que je te lis (toujours avec plaisir), je peux enfin "mettre un visage" sur ton personnage. ;-)
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