[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance

[Jeffrey Fisher]

On 6/16/05, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> > It doesn't seem possible to reject anything by your standard.
> > --
> 
> I think you push him too hard. Remember that he does call himself an
> atheist! I think the debate here is on a narrower issue: not on whether
> science gives scientists a reason not to be interested in religion (I
> think that is the case) but over whether science can _disprove_
> religion_. And your comparison may be defective. We don't try to
> "disprove" capitalism, we fight against it. Neither, really, do we try
> to disprove religion; we try to provide more interesting activity.

you hit the nail on the head *again*! and much more nicely than i just did. :-/

thanks

j

-- 
Among medieval and modern philosophers, anxious to establish
the religious significance of God, an unfortunate habit has prevailed
of paying to Him metaphysical compliments.

  - Alfred North Whitehead