Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Sabine Hossenfelder"
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Science Revolution
God is the humanising of Truth. People have had a tendency to think in terms of anthropomorphism, taking inanimate objects or ideas and given them a human face. They felt that there was a truth that lay beyond our perceptions of truth and, being human, they had to give that truth a personality, a supreme figure and each culture had their own name and narrative for that being.
When you think of it in those terms, it explains why every culture, all over the globe, had some kind of religious narrative to explain the deeper reaches of understanding. Some people are still stuck in that way of thinking. When Nietzsche said that God is dead, he didn't mean it in the literal sense. He meant that God, as the ruling arbiter of truth, has given way to science as the method to finding the truth. Religious modes of thinking might have been an evolutionary necessity in our ability to survive conscious thought.
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