If Youth Knew, If Age Could 3 — Coming of Age in an Ever, Ever-Irrational World
Dr. Herb Silverman is the Founder of the Secular Coalition for America, the Founder of the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry, and the Founder of the Atheist/Humanist Alliance student group at the College of Charleston. He authored Complex variables (1975), Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt (2012) and An Atheist Stranger in a Strange Religious Land: Selected Writings from the Bible Belt (2017). He co-authored The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America (2003) with Kimberley Blaker and Edward S. Buckner, Complex Variables with Applications (2007) with Saminathan Ponnusamy, and Short Reflections on Secularism (2019), and Short Reflections on American Secularism’s History and Philosophy (2020).
Here we talk about science and technology and new generations.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: New generations, if we’re thinking in terms of decades into the 2000s — and beyond my own lifetime too, living in current level industrial societies and industrializing societies (even towards more sustainability) will witness declines in religion. This comes with a rise in science, as we see now.
Religion declines in the more advanced economies, the more scientific societies. Technological societies without a scientific…
