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Thread #147391   Message #3415482
Posted By: Little Hawk
06-Oct-12 - 01:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Alternative to Science??
Subject: RE: BS: Alternative to Science??
I've literally never met anyone who doesn't believe in science, saulgoldie.

I have met people who also believe in numerous other things as well (virtually everyone does), but certainly met no one who does NOT believe in science...or who would oppose use of the scientific method to solve a problem which is accessible through the scientific method.

For instance, it takes some understanding of science to design and build an automobile, make it run properly, and repair it. I haven't seen anyone who doesn't already know that and accept it, regardless of whether or not they also believe in some other things as well as science.

The other things a person may believe in are not alternatives to science. They are simply other areas of interest in life, period. Art, for instance, is not an alternative to science, nor are ethics, nor is spirituality, nor is religion, nor is philosophy, nor poetry, nor romance, nor aesthetics, etc. They do not intrinsically oppose science. They simply indicate a completely different area of concern and interest in life, arrived at through a completely different process.

As such, to declare a supposed war between any of them and science is asinine, and is only asserted by the most rigid and uncomprehending persons in any given area of thought (scientific or not).