Van: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Verzonden: vrijdag 23 december 2011 13:45 Aan: f.visser3@chello.nl Onderwerp: [personal] Evolution, Again INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 382 Amsterdam, December 23rd, 2011 THEORIES ARE CONFESSIONS - Reply to Salmon - Frank Visser Don Salmon has contributed widely to Integral World in the past months (thanks Don!), both to the Reading Room and the online forum of this website. His essay "Shaving Science with Occam's Razor" generated a lively debate circling around the question: what if anything does science teach us about reality? I did not respond to that essay personally, because though it was well crafted and documented, it left me with the feeling: if science isn't able to bring us into contact with reality, what else can? Does that imply religion or spirituality is in a better position to achieve that goal? That is a case that has to be established separately and independently. True, atoms may in the end turn out not to exist as we thought, or quarks for that matter, but science provides us and keeps providing us with useful and testable fictions (models) about reality—can religion or spirituality trump that feat? Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser45.html PS. For some reason our last Newsletter did not come through, so here's a list of the essays: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR INTEGRAL THEORY - Piacenza http://www.integralworld.net/piacenza12.html KEN WILBER'S EVOLUTIONARY VIEW GETS A TRIM WITH OCKHAM'S RAZOR - PART I: The Question of Direction in the Evolution of Consciousness - Salmon http://www.integralworld.net/salmon8.html INTEGRAL THEOLOGY - The Maha Trinity - Piacenza http://www.integralworld.net/piacenza13.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html