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To: AndyTheBear
Depends on the kind of thing. Science is great for some things, but doesn't work well with others. It is just one of the ways honest rational people try to determine what is true. To limit oneself to science alone is just sad.

The whole point of science is to throw out prejudice and look strictly at the facts.

But, hey. Feel free to "go beyond" science and believe whatever. Isn't that what you want? To believe in something that science doesn't support? You have to rationalize it somehow I guess.

There are plenty of people that have "gone beyond" science. Most of the time they end up believing foolish things. Science helped up put aside foolish things.

Of course it's a free country. So believe what you will.

43 posted on 10/10/2005 10:27:04 PM PDT by mc6809e
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To: mc6809e
The whole point of science is to throw out prejudice and look strictly at the facts.

This also describes ways of pursuing truth which do not follow the scientific method. Real science is more narrow then this description implies, it involves repeatable experiments.

For instance the careful study of history does not use the scientific method, but this does not mean that historians are foolish, prejudiced, and not concerned with objectively pursuing facts. By inference it seems you either think historians are fools, or you have a looser definition of what science is then I do. In which case you ought to recognize dedicated, fact based theological studies of prophecy and the Bible.

But, hey. Feel free to "go beyond" science and believe whatever. Isn't that what you want? To believe in something that science doesn't support? You have to rationalize it somehow I guess.

You appear to be projecting way beyond the facts with quite a bit of prejudice, but as you mock: its a free country. Even discussions on FR can be attempts to pursue truth. By your own lofty (foolish/reactionary/not very thought out) standards would make your opinion "beyond science" and thus you have ended up:

believing foolish things.

If you wish to continue disagreement, I insist that you only use the scientific method in this debate (and with no such restriction on myself :)

60 posted on 10/11/2005 8:56:40 PM PDT by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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