(October 15, 2012 at 7:43 am)Akincana Krishna dasa Wrote: Well, if someone is honest enough to admit they don't know, that's fair.
What's dishonest is when scientists pretend they know that life is advanced chemistry, when that clearly hasn't been proven.
Scientists are humans, too. And many of them are buttfucking stupid when you get them outside their specializations in beakers and test tubes or whatnot.
As famed physicist Richard Feynman famously quipped:
"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
Unfortunately, many scientist don't recognize implicitly that why, how, or in what measure science actually works is a philosophical question, not a scientific one. Yet many scientists (or at least the few I have in fact locked horns with) do not recognize this distinction. In part because, again, recognizing such distinctions is a philosophy problem, for which they are once again outside their depth.