{"id":294,"date":"2009-05-22T22:09:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T22:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jarrodhart.wordpress.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2009-05-22T22:09:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T22:09:23","slug":"post-theism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Post-theism"},"content":{"rendered":"

I inhabit a post-theistic world. God or the idea of God has long-since lost its influence on my thinking – my morals, my emotions or my research. I am thus not so much an atheist as a “post-theist”. To me the debate is over, so the categorisation into the do’s and do-nots is now only an interesting study of human gullibility rather than a deep & heart-rending dilemma.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyway, I thought it would be good to put into words my position on the whole God-vs-Science debate, which is really rather important and most certainly cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n

I have frequently been tempted to write about this topic, but have opted to keep my powder dry, because I was not sure which approach would actually increase the net happiness in the world (groan away, but what other approach is better?). Options included:<\/p>\n