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To: AmishDude
You have a great deal of faith in the notion that the method is well-established (care to quantify?) and in the means by which the method was established.

Now you're just playing semantic games and using a false equivocation.

The word "faith" has different meanings. When speaking of religious "faith" it has one meaning. When speaking of the "faith" to which you refer it has a completely different meaning. Trying to claim that accepting the scientific method as a valuable tool is on par with religious faith is fundamentally dishonest. That is to say that when you claim that they are equivalent, you are lying.
142 posted on 11/25/2005 5:19:59 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio

I didn't say they are equivalent, you did. I simply state that you must have a faith in the scientific method in order for it to apply. It may "make sense" to you, for example. You've accepted the notion for so long, you don't realize that there are simply premises that must be accepted.


145 posted on 11/25/2005 5:23:34 PM PST by AmishDude (Your corporate slogan could be here! FReepmail me for my confiscatory rates.)
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