RE: Is There a Difference Between Trusting Scientists and Trusting Preachers?
July 13, 2016 at 8:31 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2016 at 8:32 pm by Regina.)
Scientists (for the most part) are willing to test and re-test, admit when they've been proved wrong, learn from mistakes, don't believe they're infallible, and trust whatever the evidence suggests.
A Preacher is someone who has read one book and thinks they have the answer to everything.
Big difference.
A Preacher is someone who has read one book and thinks they have the answer to everything.
Big difference.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie