[MD] Faith/Skepticism

[Horse]

Hi Arlo

Interesting the way this "all is faith" stuff is likely to go - once you 
can get enough mugs to believe that there's no difference between 
religion as faith and science as faith it's only a small step to show 
that religion is so much better than science because of the strength of 
faith needed to sustain the belief. After all science needs very little 
faith so it's all a bit wimpy really. Strength obviously trumps weakness 
so religious faith is best. It's so obvious now!! I've seen the light!

Cheers

Horse

ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:
> [Horse]
> I was wondering.... would you think that the root cause of this faith-based
> reductionist approach is the failure of Intelligent Design to gain the ground
> the theists wanted...
>
> [Arlo]
> Yeah, I think this is a large part of it. I think too of the "creationist
> institutes" that sought to use anthropology, geology, etc to "prove" that the
> age of the earth was 4000 years old. This was largely (and rightly) ignored,
> and so the next strategy seems to be "well, if my thinking the earth is only
> 4000 years old is a matter of faith, then your thinking its 4 billion years old
> is simply a matter of faith too". This is mirrored in the strategies the ID'ers
> have deployed as well. At first, ID was a "comparable science". Now, evolution
> is "just another faith-based idea". Anti-intellectuals in this country have
> latched onto this as a way to denigrate "science" from having any explanatory
> superiority over "religion", using Asimov's term "Scientism" to portray
> "science" as a religion itself.
>
> [Horse]
> Seems like it's time for a change of tack in theist-land and this could be the
> new approach - if you can't match it try and drag it down to a lower level.
>
> [Arlo]
> That's how I see it too.
>
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