Week 6, post 1- (Critical thinking film 6).

Not faith but testable avenues of investigation- This is perhaps the best of all the presented logic in this film. As stated it leads to (lest, anyone forgets) to “pragmatic results” such as what we nourish our bodies with, the knowledge to engineer medications and a more in-depth look at the ailments like viruses that that our man-made medicine is specifically tailored to fight. It is through Darwinism’s straight forward opportunity to observe that we learn how to better survive and what we are fighting. A privilege that faith itself could not afford us. Luckily, we have grown beyond a constrictive diet that is just mere faith, and learned how “eat our universe” to survive. And survive we do, long enough, nowadays to better understand our world and the universe for our own curiosity to quench our own thirst for knowledge, and to pass on that learned knowledge to the next generation so that they may pick-up where we left off and pass on their findings to the next, and so on.

“Man would have to invent god, even if such a being didn’t exist”- Voltaire (second hand) - Very fascinating, and another provided way to view faith, especially in more modern terms. Just as the discussion of medicine came up earlier, so does faith or at least the idea of faith in a similar concept. The idea or the concept of “god” is being used as a form medicating ourselves from a reality that may be to real truly grasp. At the same time, one may be able to see a comparison to the virus in the same context just on the other end of its prescribed meaning, or maybe that is just my own perception talking, we shall see.  Prior to its conclusion the film goes on to state one of the more easily overlooked facts, and that is that such a concept of “idiocy” was actually founded by the inner-workings of a larger brain. A brain that perhaps was gazing into the sky and in doing so was pondering our existence and purpose, and perhaps spawned one of our first significant hypotheses.

-Jeremy Watkins (M.G.)