From: Horse (horse@darkstar.uk.net)
Date: Mon Oct 18 2004 - 00:43:58 BST
Hi Platt
On 15 Oct 2004 at 8:40, Platt Holden wrote:
> Hi Horse,
>
> You wrote:
> > I am saying here that what I think will eventually change is the dominance
> > of Materialism in Science, not that that Science will eventually explain
> > phenomena beyond the merely physical. It might do but to say that would be
> > faith, as you correctly point out. Once the dominance of Materialism fades,
> > as it hopefully will, Science will need to look elsewhere for it's
> > metaphysical underpinning. If any new foundation doesn't include an
> > acceptance of Value (preferably in the MOQ sense) then Science will
> > probably remain stuck at the physical level.
>
> Well said! My way of expressing it is that the dominance of materialism in
> science is a matter of faith and needs to be changed to a faith in values
> as the underpinning for explaining observational phenomena. Quantum
> particles appear and disappear seemingly at random because they value that
> sort of behavior for reasons of their own.
Fair enough. I think I have a different view of faith to you but apart from that I'm glad we
agree.
See ya
Horse
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