RE: Scientific knowledge versus spiritual knowledge
January 12, 2016 at 5:06 pm
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2016 at 5:07 pm by God of Mr. Hanky.)
(January 12, 2016 at 4:52 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(January 3, 2016 at 11:49 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: There's no such thing as "scientific" knowledge and "spiritual" knowledge. There is only knowledge. If you cannot support your claim, it isn't a special category of "knowledge"; it is an unsupported claim.
What the fuck? Yes there is such a thing as "scientific knowledge". You wouldn't be typing on this computer if there was not such a thing.
Now don't confuse the unknown future science has yet to explain as being equal to not knowing anything at all, that is simply flat out crap.
Science is the ONLY tool that can, when used ethically and correctly give us knowledge.
The rest are just competing opinions. Humans are certainly entitled to having them, but scientific method as a tool does not give on care as to what anyone's personal opinion is. Peer review is what settles differences in science, not opinions.
I think what Thumpy may be saying is that no "knowledge" which isn't science is valid, therefore there's no point in categorizing knowledge at all. This would not change the nature of scientific knowledge, but it may fight the special pleading from those who insist they have other forms of "knowledge". But it wouldn't stop theists from muddling any linguistic term, therefore if scientists stopped qualifying their "knowledge" as "scientific", then it would be that much harder to sort out the corruption of it by theists.
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