Some of us get offended that our children are being taught that collective human wisdom is the apex of authority.
Well it's either that or teaching children that the collecive human wisdom of the ancient Jews, or the early Christians as collected in the Holy Bible is, because of long tradition by large cultural groups, held to be divine? Why? because human wisdom claims they are divine!
I prefer the honest falliblity of human science to the endless arguments of what did God mean by writing and so carelessly preserving his so called inerrant word which nobody is supposed to change or disobey but which large groups of believers over the past thousand years have not been able to agree on the meanings.
I understand the insecurity of facing that your obviously fallible judgements are all you have, but to tell yourself that you, a human, now have certainty because you decided that your understanding is what the divine meant is self deception.
So all humans have is their fallible wisdom to understand anything anyway. To say science is somehow lesser than religion because it admits what is true while religion denies what is true seems to me intellectually disingenuous. Tradition is pre scientific collective human wisdom. And it is worth something but it does stand corrected in many instances by scientific discovery.
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