From: Horse (horse@darkstar.uk.net)
Date: Fri Oct 15 2004 - 00:49:11 BST
Hi David (again)
On 14 Oct 2004 at 19:21, David Morey wrote:
> Hi Horse
>
> However, governments do claim to make rational decisions
> based on scientific facts, often covering up that they are
> really dealing in values.
Governments make all sorts of claims - witness the current Labour Party climbdowns -
but they are generally either deliberately selective with which facts they base their
decisions on or they manufacture them in one way or another. Isn't opportunism a
wonderful thing!
> Also they fund science and can
> control the science we get. But overall I don't think we are
> that far apart. I just have a suspicion that the science we have
> because of its metaphysics is giving us technology, coupled
> with consumerist short termism and dumbing down, etc,
> is part of the problem. Better science, however, I hope is
> part of the solution.
I agree. Science is continually improving and there are a growing number of scientists
that are pushing at the walls of Materialism. I don't see Dawkins as one of them though.
Horse
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