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To: gobucks
So where do you disagree with the article? I can't really follow your comments.

Thanks for posting it, BTW.

11 posted on 09/19/2005 6:28:13 PM PDT by curiosity
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To: curiosity

I disagree with the idea that just because Kuhn is quoted by Discovery Inst folks, that must mean w/ buy into post modern methods of rhetorical fighting in order to win...

ID folks in my experience (and I'm not really a hard core ID type myself) do indeed strictly adhere to accepted scientific practices, and approach the problems of 'how' differently than do the scientists which presuppose a philosophic faith position they refuse to discuss: that 'natural' forces are the 'exclusive' cause of what we observe. It is the denial of that presupposition that is the issue w/ so many ID types, and me too.

That all said, I don't agree w/ the argument we're simply engaging in paradigm warfare, and thus validating the idea truth is merely relative to those who have the power to make it so.

ID folks, like the science folks in general, do indeed believe in a standard of absolute truth....

They just can't get it together about the origin of the standard.


29 posted on 09/19/2005 7:05:52 PM PDT by gobucks (http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/Laocoon.htm)
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