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| Milgram's experiment didn't "bury humanist ideology" (Letters, 20 December); it showed that, in addition to a moral sense, obedience to authority is also hardwired into us. Maybe not quite so hardwired, but still present, is the urge to ask awkward questions, such as "What to do when two hardwirings tell me to do different things?" and "Where does the authority of some human beings over others come from anyway?" | Milgram's experiment didn't "bury humanist ideology" (Letters, 20 December); it showed that, in addition to a moral sense, obedience to authority is also hardwired into us. Maybe not quite so hardwired, but still present, is the urge to ask awkward questions, such as "What to do when two hardwirings tell me to do different things?" and "Where does the authority of some human beings over others come from anyway?" |
| Other awkward questions are: "If there is a good God, why is everything such a mess?" and "If there is no God, how does the universe know what equations to obey, and where does the mathematics for such equations come from?" My answer is to assume there may well be a God, who wants us to keep fearlessly asking all these questions. Fred Holroyd Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire | Other awkward questions are: "If there is a good God, why is everything such a mess?" and "If there is no God, how does the universe know what equations to obey, and where does the mathematics for such equations come from?" My answer is to assume there may well be a God, who wants us to keep fearlessly asking all these questions. Fred Holroyd Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire |
| • Eight-year-old Grace asked an intelligent and penetrating question (Ask a grown-up: If God created everything, who created God?, Weekend, 22 December), to which she received a trite and one-sided reply. There was no attempt to explain why, if the universe was created by a loving God, he felt the need to create the Ebola virus, or polio, or intestinal parasites. And is Dr Fraser unaware of what is going on in Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine and parts of Africa, or does he choose to simply ignore them? And what are the leaders of his religion doing while all these atrocities continue? Debating how many gay, female bishops can dance on the head of a pin. The kindest thing you can say about God is that he doesn't exist; if he did he would almost certainly be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Dick Hadfield Ludlow, Shropshire | • Eight-year-old Grace asked an intelligent and penetrating question (Ask a grown-up: If God created everything, who created God?, Weekend, 22 December), to which she received a trite and one-sided reply. There was no attempt to explain why, if the universe was created by a loving God, he felt the need to create the Ebola virus, or polio, or intestinal parasites. And is Dr Fraser unaware of what is going on in Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine and parts of Africa, or does he choose to simply ignore them? And what are the leaders of his religion doing while all these atrocities continue? Debating how many gay, female bishops can dance on the head of a pin. The kindest thing you can say about God is that he doesn't exist; if he did he would almost certainly be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Dick Hadfield Ludlow, Shropshire |
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