realunoriginal wrote:
Philosophy: formulating the question.
Science: formulating the answer.
Religion: formulating the certainty.
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From a naturalist point of view the question of existence is answered by survival imperatives demanding new technologies when exponential population pressures impact dangerously on regional environments. Each new paradigm demands increasingly complex changes in social contracts. Larger social cooperatives require more clearly articulated ethical rules of conduct. In this respect the question, the answer and the certainty are simultaneous survival imperatives. They all have to work in unison.
Simply stated: The answer to the question of our reason for being is dependent on both technology and ethics. You cannot have science without a religion of ethical conduct and vise verse. The philosopher must see the package holistically.
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