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Maverick
Skeptic Friend
Sweden
385 Posts |
 Posted - 08/30/2004 : 11:34:01 [Permalink]
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| Of course science can be improved as well, because it is not perfect or ultimate. It is the best we have today though, I'm sure of that. |
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy." -- Carl Sagan |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 08/30/2004 : 11:57:14 [Permalink]
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Posted by Dave W:Unfortunately, there is a growing group of people who express what's known as 'scientism', or the belief that science can - eventually - answer all of life's questions, and/or that nothing can improve upon the general "scientific method" as we know it now. It's a sort of scientific fanaticism, and it's not good, even if the people who have such beliefs are "on our side."
scientism... seems like a self defeating outlook. Science may very well provide us with the answers to our hard questions.... but we should keep in mind that every answer generates more questions.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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