[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Sat Jun 11 20:47:21 PDT 2005


Autoplectic wrote:


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>>Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes:
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>>The virtue of science is that it has made it unnecessary for us to
>>have any hypothesis concerning God or gods or goddesses.
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>Well the historical/theological origins of science[s] are a separate
>issue from whether God actually does *any* explanatory work in modern
>science as it has been practiced.
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>So, Yoshie is correct. Historicizing
>scientific explanation does nothing to ameliorate the claim. Do you
>think Yoshie's claim, re contemporary scientific practice/theory is
>false?
>
>Ian
>
>
I think it is wrong and dangerous to think that science makes no metaphysical/religious claims.

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