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To: metmom
It is interesting that science cannot be done without philosophy. Philosophical assumptions are utilized in the search for causes, and, therefore, cannot be the result of them. For example, scientists assume (by faith) that reason and logic and the scientific method allow us to accurately understand the world around us. That assumption cannot be proven by science itself. You cannot prove the tools of logic - the laws of logic, the Law of Causality, the Principle of uniformity, or the reliability of observaation and uniformity of nature - by running some kind of experiment. You have to assume those things are true in order to do experimentations.

In the final analysis science does not say anything - scientists do. Here we see the Scientific 'Hare Chrishna' devotees to their own own worldview, which they cannot philosophically account for, make repeated, in their own worldview which denies abstract entities are real, use of those very abstractions in order to attempt validation of their assertion. It is like trying to make virtue into vice. Hypocrisy is their tool of choice in attempts to validate that which their own worldview will not allow. It is hubris of the highest order.

131 posted on 03/23/2010 4:51:22 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: Texas Songwriter

So much for their claims of objectivity.


134 posted on 03/23/2010 4:53:55 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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