From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 12:59:04 BST
Hi Scott,
> Then I should have used the more explicit name 'scientific materialism'
> instead of 'scientism'. My apologies, though I have often seen the two
> terms ('scientism' and 'scientific materialism') used interchangeably. With
> that substitution, I did challenge your first post. Science is an activity,
> not a doctrine or metaphysics or faith. Some scientists (like Dawkins) are
> scientific materialists, but many others are Christians, Muslims,
> agnostics, etc. who do not hold that evolution proceeds by blind chance,
> etc.
True. Some scientists believe in the supernatural or withhold judgment on
the existence of a higher power. I dare say, however, that most scientists
are atheists although I can't at the moment point to a survey that says
so.
I don't think you can deny that science is based on certain unprovable
assumptions (which I have pointed out) and that as such, those assumptions
are accepted on faith. I would call that "scientific doctrine" and a
Subject-Object Metaphysics. (SOM). I fail to see the relevance of your
distinction that science is an "activity" because religious practices are
also activities.
Finally, terrorists adopt the biological moral code of "might makes
right." That's what makes terrorism a biological pattern.
Platt
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