[MD] Science and Scientism

[markhsmit]

OK Mark (but the mail was addressed to me, take care)

You said
> Perhaps faith is not the right word, because
> I am not talking religious faith.

OK, maybe there is something to talk about. It's really the degree of
(or nature of) the blindness vs contingency in the faith (belief) we
are talking about. "Basis of belief" is the language I try to use.
Quite a few of those things you list you have first-person
experiential evidence as well as a lot of corroborating evidence. The
question is what counts as valuable evidence.

Ian

Yea, and for me, what counts as valuable evidence at the expense
of ignoring other evidence.  In my opinion, science is very well 
put together, with lots of supporting empirical data.  It is taught in
school, so we accept things like the planets revolving around the
sun and so on.  Since I have no first hand evidence of this, I accept
it as a possibility.  Since I do not often have to think about it, this
acceptance of planet revolution has no effect on my daily life.

I appears to me that the dominance of the inculcation in
science is at the expense of much else.  And, most of it
we accept based on books or teachers unquestionably.
I think that is what I am trying to point out.

Mark

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