(August 30, 2019 at 10:54 am)Acrobat Wrote:(August 30, 2019 at 10:18 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I always find it ironic when people use a computer and a modem to access the internet to decry science.
Have you ever had an inoculation? Surgery? Do you take any medications? Do you own a toaster or drive a car? Do you have a cell phone? Do you eat food? Do you poop indoors? Do you live in a house with running water and electricity? Do you wear manufactured clothing? Benefits of science, mate.
Boru
I’m not decrying science, I’m decrying scientism.
I’m decrying those who point to computers and modems, which as about true as pointing to warts and cancer, and flesh eating viruses.
What I am thankful for is purpose, for giving us modems and computers .
Well, there's certainly nothing wrong with decrying scientism - it's false on the face of it.
But 'belief in science' is hardly the same thing as supporting scientism. Disbelief in science, which appears to be your position (correct me if I'm wrong) is so obviously wrong that it borders on the perverse. Science is a methodology, and that methodology exists. Not believing in science is precisely the same as not believing in Australia or icicles or beef stroganoff.
How can you disbelieve in something that manifestly exists?
Boru
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