From: Richard Loggins (brloggins@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Nov 12 2004 - 13:50:00 GMT
Hi Arlo, MSH, others,
I can see where you are both coming from, but isn't putting subjects like evolution and Intelligent Design in seperate categories (science, metaphysics, religion) part and parcel of the subject/object stratification that leads to psichic alienation? I see your arguments making sense within a SOM framework, but shouldn't we be discussing the MoQ here? Pirsig is trying to find ways of bridging science and religion through a broader metaphysics that puts Quality as its core and presents the view that there is more than one truth. The MoQ has no quarrel with Darwinian and teleological explanations of evolution. If there is only one objective reality, there can be only one truth, but Pirsig is saying otherwise.
Another thing is that science, as now defined, has no provision for morals, and this is a devastating blind spot according to the MoQ. When a scientist looks for genetic variation under the microscope he doesn't see morals, he sees "copying errors" or "mutations" instead of a moral force of betterness. In a broadened definition of sience that includes morals, all of these kinds of theories belong together in the classroom and judged according to there Quality.
Rich
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