[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance

Autoplectic autoplectic at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 06:58:27 PDT 2005


On 6/11/05, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> No. But it may be necessary to understand that the question of religion
> is a meaningful one before we ever experience another scientific revolution.
>
> Joanna
>

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Which religion?

We can't know if we'll ever experience another scientific revolution as that's simply one analytical-rhetorical strategy for conceptualizing changes in scientific praxis/theory. We don't *need* the concept of a scientific revolution. Indeed, the term as been overhyped to the gills and no longer facilitates creativity in scientific work, imo.

What kind of evidence could possibly be presented that religion should be seen as meaningful in order to gain better understandings of disease, space-time dynamics, genetic drift, the chemical composition of the oceans, earthquake prediction etc.?

Ian -- "Life sure is weird but what else am I to know?" [Jason Pierce]



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