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Re: Critical Thinking
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 2 Dec 2000 04:21:27 GMT
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Jon Kozan writes:
> > That is, without a supernatural force entering into the equation - which is
> > what more than a few scientists have suggested lately -- God anyone?
I know Jon can speak for himself, but just to clarify things -- I think Jon
is alluding to the idea of the "prime mover" or "first cause." No one knows
what the first cause of the universe was or is. Science, on this count as
well as others, is just as much a matter of faith as any other system of
beliefs or ethics.
BTW, I happen to disagree with Jon's larger world view -- from what I
understand of it -- but he is absolutely correct in much of what he has said
about science.
Just my own irrefutable observations...
=)
-- Richard
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| (...) I disagree with that, but not too sharply. Science is not a matter of faith at all, since it is at its essence a system seeking to verify itself through observation rather than saying "it is that way because it is that way, end of story." (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I suppose you're testing me with this false statement, since as a physicist you surely know that the greatest strength of science is precisely its ability to grow as understanding grows, rather than stagnate on centuries of dogma; if it were (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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