[MD] Science and Scientism

[Ian Glendinning]

Mark, inserted ... (Arlo mentioned)

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:18 AM, markhsmit <markhsmit at aol.com> wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> I believe that everything should be questioned.
[IG] I don't actually. I believe everything should be open to question
... but constant questioning and criticism to the exclusion of more
creative & synthetic pursuits is bad news. Creation needs insuating
from criticism until viable patterns come into play. Evolution would
get nowhere if our policy was to kill ever germ at conception. People
need moral policy in their questioning too.

> Even science as
> a faith.  Its view seems to be so accepted that it is abused.
> I am not sure what faith-based means, in my view it is
> all faith.  None of it is bad.
[IG] This is why I'm unlikely to read any of your material Mark. That
is too extreme to be credible . Science is not ALL faith by any
stretch of the imagination. I do plug away at science's blind-spots to
faith-based aspects, but Arlo is right to react to your extreme
position. None of "x" is bad - is an equally ludicrous extreme too.
Some thing ARE better than others - that's the whole point.