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To: longshadow
It's more like taking science as a menu of options. They just choose which parts to accept and which parts not. The primary differences between creationists and postmoderndeconstructionists or newagers lies in the artistry of choice. Like they do with Bible verses or Koran suras.
106 posted on 07/27/2004 1:51:25 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
It's more like taking science as a menu of options. They just choose which parts to accept and which parts not. The primary differences between creationists and postmoderndeconstructionists or newagers lies in the artistry of choice.

The Smorgasbord approach to science! Can you imagine doing that with, say Mathematics?

"Hmmm. let's see now; Geometry looks okay, but calculus is used in Physics, and we all know Physics contains the evil twins of QM and Relativity, so we'll skip calculus, and same for Differential Equations for the same reason, but we'll throw in a little Toplogy, because, after all, it's abstract, and not an applied Math, so what trouble can we get into with that, and I guess we'll skip Probability & Statistics, because we know how the minions of Satan like to use statistics to lie, and I guess we better skip the the Complex numbers because, after all, they're only "imaginary," and that means we'll take Linear Vector Spaces, but without Hilbert spaces because they use those "imaginary" complex numbers, and while we're at it we'll skip all Infinite Dimensional Spaces, because no one has seen infinity, so it can't possibly exist, and for the same reason we'll skip Transfinite Arithmetic and everything else that comes out of Set Theory that involves sets with infinite cardinality...... oh, yes, and while we're at it, let's dig up the graves of Cantor and Hilbert and burn them at the stake for the Heretics that they were......"

Well, know; that would be quite something, Mathematically speaking: Smorgasbord Mathematics, to go with Smorgasbord Science, coming soon to an anti-knowledge institution near you ....

107 posted on 07/27/2004 2:34:30 PM PDT by longshadow
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