From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Fri Oct 08 2004 - 14:40:17 BST
Hi Scott, all,
On 7 Oct 2004 at 23:19, Scott Roberts wrote:
Mark et al,
> msh says:
> Yep. And people who spend a lot of energy downplaying the value of
> science, math, and logic are to me always suspect. Robert Duvall,
> the great American actor, was once asked what he thought about
movie
> critics. He said: "Show me a critic and I'll show you a failure."
> His meaning is clear, and applies to critics of science, math and
> logic. I think it's time to start checking college transcripts.
Couldn't agree more about those who downplay the value of science,
math, and logic, but no one in this thread has. Though I think it is
overstated, Platt's point is that scientists also operate within a
faith structure.
msh says:
To sate that scientists have "faith" in science in the way theists
have "faith" in God is to denigrate science, as well as to reveal a
high ignorance of scientific method. It is a grotesque and dishonest
use of the word.
Platt's list of scientific "faiths", to the extent that it is at all
accurate, is nothing more than a list of apriori assumptions made in
order to kick-start a highly valuable system of thought. You might
as well say that mathematicians have faith in the square root of two.
Finally, science has a history of well-defined mistakes and
corrections. Religious faith is, by definition, not falsifiable.
Any attempt to draw some faith-based parallel between science and
religion is doomed to failure if not fraud.
Best,
Mark
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