(March 28, 2021 at 9:47 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Adjustment is an important word. According to Quine (a philosopher of science), any belief can be kept in place if you are willing to move enough stuff around it. You can keep any theory alive with revisions, including competing theories.
So how would you, for example, keep Lamarckism alive with revisions?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
