Re: scientific method

I would much rather be a born again agnostic.

It is not wise to blindly follow any leader especially when they use
religion as their bait.

What religious zealots and autocratic dictators hate most is that the basic
principle behind the scientific method is to always question authority.

The problem is that in common parlance the term "authority" is usually
misused to mean some pompous fool with a Ph.D., a political leader hell bent
on starting a war, a boss misusing his position to make your job miserable
or some crazed cop trying to abuse the law for his own amusement.


mel turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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> [Iris Cohen] wrote...
> >
> ><< I suspect Roadrunner might also have benefited from a better science
> >education. >><BR><BR>
> >
> >Doubtless. The interesting thing is that my high school biology teacher
and
> >lifelong hero, Dr. Brandwein, who drilled the scientific method and much
other
> >wisdom into us, when we tried to peek behind the Final Curtain, said, "A
> >scientist must be religious." (Yes, I know he would not be allowed to say
that
> >today. I hope the young people will get it somewhere.)
>
> I suppose it depends on what he meant by "religious". Perhaps he was
> just saying that he believed that a good scientist really ought to
> have "religious" feelings of awe and reverence for the universe that
> she or he studies. Certainly many great scientists, past and present,
> haven't been at all "religious" in any conventional sense.
>
> Nevetheless, the antievolutionists are of course wrong whenever
> they try to argue that there is necessarily a conflict between
> accepting the findings of science and having religious beliefs.
>
> Despite frequent creationist claims that the science has all been
> some sinister atheistic conspiracy, a great many "evolutionists"
> will say they are devout members of the usual religions.
>
> cheers
>
>