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Manfred comments on Robert Aumann on Judaism - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 21 August 2015 11:06:50PM *  1 point [-]

I repeat, where did you get literal 6 days, as in 6 24 Earth hours? Isn't there a steelman custom on LW?

I can invent lots of reasonable interpretations for the Genesis myth of creation after thinking about it for a little bit. Isn't there a concept of "day of Brahma," and so on? I am sure smart theologians who spend their lives on this can, too!

I think Aumann's deeper point is about map/territory, and how we should treat modeling as more-tentative-than-currently-customary (almost everything is modeling, and since all models are false it is useful to hedge/diversify). A lot of modern science is actually conditional on "convenient" statistical models that are not easy to defend.

Comment author: Manfred 22 August 2015 01:54:04AM *  5 points [-]

Directly above the passage quoted in OP is this:

When I was young, there were many attempts by religious people to "reconcile" science and religion. For example, each of the six days of creation can be viewed as representing a different geological era. There was - and perhaps still is - a view that science contradicts religion, that one has to reconcile them. It is apologetic, and I don't buy it.

He is swallowing the bullet on separate magisteria, here.

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