[lbo-talk] Re: therapy vs drugs

Brian Siano siano at mail.med.upenn.edu
Wed Aug 13 08:06:42 PDT 2003


Chris Doss wrote:


>> Oh, yeah, the time-honored "But science is just another kind of
>> _faith_" argument. I hear it a lot from Creationists.
>>
>> S: "We must base our knowledge of the emergence of life on verifiable
>> physical evidence, consistency of explanation, and continual
>> re-evaluation of established knowledge. We cannot include claims of
>> divine intervention or mystical influences, as they are
>> non-falsifiable, and have no explanatory power."
>> C: "But that's just another argument based on _faith_."
>> Except that science does not make metaphysical claims. You are.
>
This is on the level of "I know you are, but what am I?"



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