An Approach to Life

By Todd Allen Gates, author of “Dialogue with a Christian Proselytizer”
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How True-Believing theists cope when science contradicts Scripture: the literalist approach vs. the allegorical approach. (This is a re-make of a video I had made back in Nov 2007, which I had then called “Science, religion, and ‘truth’ vs. ‘Truth’.”)

This video is based of the following material from “Dialogue with a Christian Proselytizer”:

* Science and “Truth” (endnote 2)
* Christianity vs. Copernicus and Galileo (endnote 9)
* Faith Alone” vs. “Faith & Facts” (endnote 38)
* excerpts of dialogue between the book’s two characters: Chris Proselman, the proselytizer; and “Scott Crates,” the skeptic

My four YouTube channels:

- http://youtube.com/user/ToddGates – my musician channel

- http://youtube.com/user/ToddAllenGates – where I discuss the ideas in my book “Dialogue with a Christian Proselytizer” (a dialogue between a Christian proselytizer and a Socratic skeptic)

- http://youtube.com/user/ToddAllenGates2 – where I discuss the ideas in my book “Hunting, Gathering, & Videogames” (such as “Why do we have to work?” and “Why do we have to use money?” and “How should we define ’success’?”)

- http://youtube.com/user/BlasphemyPiano – where I play the background piano accompaniment for songs in Nick Gisburne’s book of lyrics “Blasphemy! Anthems for Atheists.”

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the full talk:
http://mckenna.psychedelic-library.org/Terence%20Mckenna%20-%20Angels%20Aliens%20%26%20Archetypes%20rc.mp3

related quotes:
“There’s science and then there’s reason and science has at times used reason although at times its conclusions have been fairly unreasonable. Reason is a universal method for dealing with information, whereas science is an extremely culturally conventionalized method. I think there’s a role for reason and the razors of logic but this is a branch of formal philosophy, not a branch of science; science appropriates everything to itself and then we tend to genuflect before it but what we really need is a relativistic approach to the true scope of science which is considerably less than it has claimed for itself. In the 20th century, it’s claimed to be the arbiter of truth in all domains when in fact it’s simply the study of those phenomena so crude that the restoration of their initial condition causes the same thing to repeat itself, and that’s a very small part of the sum total of the phenomenal universe.”
Terence Mckenna

“People are so alienated from their own soul that when they meet their soul they think it comes from another star system.”
Terence McKenna

“I loathe science and am always keane to attack it in most situations (…) but I love reason and I’m perfectly aware of the difference.”
Terence Mckenna

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