RE: The Ownership of Science
November 3, 2021 at 11:12 am
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2021 at 11:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 3, 2021 at 11:07 am)GaryAnderson Wrote:(November 3, 2021 at 11:03 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Not really, but if we have to argue What Is Words And How Do They Do!?! from the outset, your objections are almost certainly going to be inane.You need to look this up more but the universe is fine-tuned for life and this is confirmed and mentioned by many scientists. This means that you don’t like theists using this fact to support their position.
Pretty simple, and simply inane. The universe isn't fine tuned for life. You're a puddle of water marveling at how perfectly the hole was made for you. Your hypothetical theist is wrong on the facts - and spouting speudoscientific claptrap, instead.
Arguing counterfactually isn't mis-using science or engaging in psuedoscience. It's just being stubbornly wrong.
Is there any possibility, in your mind, of a world where the current scientific understanding of many items you might feel compelled to dispute is accurate, and a god exists? That you, and not geneticists, and not physicists, and not gods..for example, have misunderstood something?
It's pretty subtle question, especially as it relates to who "owns" science. As a person who can't even entertain that possibility certainly doesn't (and doesn't have any need to) possess science, refer to science, accept it, even. Their beef isn't who owns it - but the simple fact that it exists and irritates them for existing.
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