Wow. What an amazing book. The way Edward Wilson writes it's amazing, it is so easy to follow through and is very direct with his statements. He starts the chapter by describing a little bit his teenage years when he was studying to become a biologist in the University of Alabama and how we was very interested in classifying the ants. It was thanks to his mentor that gave him a book in Systematics and the Origin of Species that he became more aware and interested in evolution.
He explains he suffered this Ionic Enchantment which was a belief in the unity of the sciences- a conviction, far deeper than a mere working proposition, that the world is orderly and can be explained by a small number of natural laws. As Einstein once said "It is a wonderful feeling to recognize the unity of a complex of phenomena that to direct observation appear to be quite separate things".
As he became more interested in this topic, he that was a Jesus Christ believer and a baptist because he was bred into it, started having doubts because he founded difficult to accept the idea that his deepest beliefs were set in stone two thousand years ago.
He then finishes of the chapter saying that the source of the IE is preferring a search of objective reality over revelation is another way of satisfying a religious hunger. He explains that this journey aims to save the spirit, not by surrender but by liberation of the human mind. "When we have unified enough certain knowledge, we will understand who we are and why we are here".
In my case, this relates with me in so many ways. Starting the point that I was bred into the catholic religion and I'm expected to attend church on sundays and follow the amendments but I often noticed that I was not satisfied of what I was been told, and couldn't even dare to question, because it was like questioning God's words or decisions. I believe that if it does not fulfill me or even leave me something worth practicing realistically I should stop pretending to follow certain ideas or share the same opinion when I don't share them completetely. It's better to acquire knowledge on your own, not having an specific way of thinking and rather accept many ideas and try to make your own. I do believe there's a God who created us and is kind and perfect. But I struggle to find since I was a child how come Catholic religion be the one and only religion which holds the truth according to what I've been thought?. I think each one of us holding our differences and similarities might have their own understanding of who is God, and how to render him, without the hypocrite institutions behind every religion. If the religion institutions have done their job correctly then we ask ourselves why is there so many violence or mundane things going around us still? The only answer I can think of right now is that these people don't know who they are, and often act with their instinct and not with their reason, because they have not been thought to use it, and rather follow what others think or do "to make their lives easier".
He explains he suffered this Ionic Enchantment which was a belief in the unity of the sciences- a conviction, far deeper than a mere working proposition, that the world is orderly and can be explained by a small number of natural laws. As Einstein once said "It is a wonderful feeling to recognize the unity of a complex of phenomena that to direct observation appear to be quite separate things".
As he became more interested in this topic, he that was a Jesus Christ believer and a baptist because he was bred into it, started having doubts because he founded difficult to accept the idea that his deepest beliefs were set in stone two thousand years ago.
He then finishes of the chapter saying that the source of the IE is preferring a search of objective reality over revelation is another way of satisfying a religious hunger. He explains that this journey aims to save the spirit, not by surrender but by liberation of the human mind. "When we have unified enough certain knowledge, we will understand who we are and why we are here".
In my case, this relates with me in so many ways. Starting the point that I was bred into the catholic religion and I'm expected to attend church on sundays and follow the amendments but I often noticed that I was not satisfied of what I was been told, and couldn't even dare to question, because it was like questioning God's words or decisions. I believe that if it does not fulfill me or even leave me something worth practicing realistically I should stop pretending to follow certain ideas or share the same opinion when I don't share them completetely. It's better to acquire knowledge on your own, not having an specific way of thinking and rather accept many ideas and try to make your own. I do believe there's a God who created us and is kind and perfect. But I struggle to find since I was a child how come Catholic religion be the one and only religion which holds the truth according to what I've been thought?. I think each one of us holding our differences and similarities might have their own understanding of who is God, and how to render him, without the hypocrite institutions behind every religion. If the religion institutions have done their job correctly then we ask ourselves why is there so many violence or mundane things going around us still? The only answer I can think of right now is that these people don't know who they are, and often act with their instinct and not with their reason, because they have not been thought to use it, and rather follow what others think or do "to make their lives easier".