[MD] Are theists irrational?

[Ian Glendinning]

I wish Arlo,

If you are going to include all psuedo-science in there too I'd have
to drop the % to something like 60% or 70% ;-)

No, as I'm sure you knew, what I mean is even in the "good science"
accepted as such by scientific "received wisdom" there is still an
important residual element of "faith" in the untestable basics.

Close but no cigar.
Ian

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:01 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> [Ian]
> You kinda prove my point. I agree it mostly has it (maybe even 99% has it).
> Science is therefore morally supereior if and only if it really is an
> intellectual pattern. In practice it operates through many social patterns too.
> In theory science has the moral high ground ...in practice ...
>
> [Arlo]
> Well, this is asking if there are social patterns masquerading as intellectual
> patterns, and I'd say of course there are. "Creationism", for example, was a
> blatant attempt to disguise social patterns as intellectual patterns.
> "Eugenics" is likely also in that category.
>
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