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Posted by Jaime on 1/24/2008, 12:57 am, in reply to "radio show - how to think about science"
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It is a hard for me to understand why people feel the need to criticize science. Why is science disconcerting to some?
On the one hand there are the people who claim their revelations (which are usually preposterous bronze-age ravings by some priest who is a co-parasite with the ruling class of a society) are all the truth we need about the world. The fundies of Kansas point to their poorly translated anthology and think it should replace the studies of geology and biology.
On the other hand, we have a methodology of acquiring knowledge, which we call science, resting upon the ability to a) conceptualize some method of testing the truth or fallacy of an idea; and b) accept provisionally the truth of said idea if one consistently gets the same results each time one tests the idea. Science, thus, is the methodology. Very Daoist, this: the voyage being mostly about the road.
That is the right way to think about science, in my opinion.
In your way,
-J
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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