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To: Fester Chugabrew
"But science is not perfectly reflective of objective reality precisely because of the belief system of each observer."

Yeah, that's what the feminists and all the other "culture wars" types would have you believe. It's wrong, though. The science doesn't change, no matter what or who the observer is. How they choose to INTERPRET that data is, to some extent affected by the belief system. There IS an objective reality, and science measures it.

17 posted on 08/22/2006 1:05:02 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: Wonder Warthog
How they choose to INTERPRET that data is, to some extent affected by the belief system.

That is essentially what I am saying. You cannot have science without interpretation of data, and you cannot have interpretation of data without a belief system. It is simply the nature of science to have limited objectivity.

21 posted on 08/22/2006 8:51:23 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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