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To: voltaires_zit

There is a difference between a science and SCIENCE. Is it Luddism is say that Darwin's theories were shaped by the prevalent opinions of his class and age?


56 posted on 03/20/2007 3:47:17 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: RobbyS
There is a difference between a science and SCIENCE. Is it Luddism is say that Darwin's theories were shaped by the prevalent opinions of his class and age?

I'm not sure what you'd call it to try to define science in terms of the abuses of TOE, but you don't call it rational.

57 posted on 03/20/2007 3:50:31 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: RobbyS; voltaires_zit
There is a difference between a science and SCIENCE.

No doubt. The difference is whichever one makes room for your theology isn't science.

Is it Luddism is say that Darwin's theories were shaped by the prevalent opinions of his class and age?

No. It's ad hominem.

58 posted on 03/20/2007 3:53:39 PM PDT by Gumlegs
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To: RobbyS

All opinions, on any matter whatsoever, are shaped by the day and the culture in which they form.

That said, science is unique in human endeavor in that it actively works to remove blinders caused by that effect. Other endeavors, such as politics or religion, seem to glory in them.

It's the belief that slight, insurmountable cultural bias demolishes the truth in science or the value in modernity that is the basis of luddism.


61 posted on 03/20/2007 3:56:02 PM PDT by voltaires_zit (Government is the problem, not the answer.)
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