[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Mon Jun 13 08:21:42 PDT 2005


ravi wrote:


>i beg to disagree. science has made it no less necessary for my mother
>and her sisters to believe in god (or entertain hypotheses about
>him/her/it). without exaggeration, i could claim that science
>(especially in its practice), in all its elitist complexity, has perhaps
>motivated a turn (or at least a reinformcement) towards (of) god-hypotheses.
>
...and, alas, of the personal God hypothesis since, for science, one experimental subject is as good as another. Science does not know of the "unique."

Joanna


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