Thursday, March 21, 2013

Science Can’t Answer Morality

Last Saturday, our professor let us watch a video clip about a speech of a man about the relationship between science and human values. The speaker had a good speech about Science vs morality and other topics. He has given a lot of situations. He mentioned things that would views that science can answer morality, and morality is relates to values which is kind a fact.


According to Sam Harris, “it's often said that science cannot give us a foundation for morality and human values, because science deals with facts, and facts and values seem to belong to different spheres.” Yes, science is the body of knowledge with the facts. Values are facts about the well-being and consciousness.  Knowing what is morally right and what is morally wrong. Values are certain kind of fact. Science cannot answer all about morality because it science don’t have such a study about morality, but then it can’t be the basis about the science Maybe, there were certain facts about morality that is not bounded by science.


Morality relates to value. In morality we value differences and opinions. Science has no opinions since there were theories and studies about the things surrounded by us. Whatever talks about science and morality, we cannot change the fact that science and morality have different boundaries. People, do have different opinions about the relationship of the science and morality. About the religion, science cannot argue with it. It talks about God, it cannot be contracted by someone, we do have different religions and cultures we believe in.


Just to know that whatever science and morality differs, the important is we know what to believe in. What is better for us, and what makes everyone happy. If they believe that science can answer morality, then go and believe it. There is no problem on whatever you believe as long as nothing is wrong, and no one is affected. What we just need is to respect about their differences. Understand the positive and negative fact on it. Let just be open-minded on what they think is right.


People have different perspective, sometimes they do cannot see same point of view of other people. We need to speak up on what we know so that other people would understand others point of view, so that nobody would make argument on whatever they think is right. So that no one would make problems bigger, and complicated. Maybe, everybody would just be happy and just enjoy the life God has given us.

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