[MD] Dawkins a Materialist

[ian glendinning]

I simpy repeat Platt,

That limit is always contingent and evolving.
MoQ makes the cut, stands the tests of science, and contributes to its
evolution. Astrology falls at the first hurdle, so is soon discarded.
Simple really.

Science "has not adequately explained .... " is just a matter of
individual and cultural opinion. It will change, in the same way as
science evolves.

Ian

On 1/2/07, pholden at davtv.com <pholden at davtv.com> wrote:
> Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:
>
> > I appreciated that Platt ... but you quoted it ...
> >
> > The public levels of expectation for what passes for "science", which
> > you and all the wider media subscribe to, is the issue at point. You
> > have to look beyond the published words, and cultural conditioned
> > presumptions in their meaning.
> >
> > I'm not criticising anyone, just pointing out a problem "we" have.
>
> It seems to me if there is a problem about what the term "science"
> means it's a problem not that we have, but that you have. Some people
> call astrology a science, but that doesn't make it so. Previously I
> described the faith-based assumptions of science. I have yet to see
> anyone disprove those assumptions, nor to the best of my knowledge
> have the laws of gravitation, motion, thermodynamics and others of
> classical science been revoked by the scientific community. They still
> apply full force to the everyday world we inhabit. But science has yet to
> adequately explained how life overcomes many of the these same forces,
> as Pirsig so amusingly pointed out in Chap. 11 of Lila in his description
> of your typical chemistry professor. So science has its limits, as do all
> human endeavors.
>
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