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RE: Does atheism inspire people?
June 4, 2012 at 1:06 pm
Again Plato had a "philosophy" of "essence". People have economic "philosophies" and political "philosophies".
That is why I hate the word. Instead of using the word "philosophy" in regard's to scientific method, call it what it is "a tool". A Jew and a Muslim can argue over a god, they cannot argue over DNA which was uncovered by the tool of scientific method.
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RE: Does atheism inspire people?
June 4, 2012 at 1:09 pm
They'd have to admit that DNA is real first.
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RE: Does atheism inspire people?
June 4, 2012 at 2:09 pm
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2012 at 2:15 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Philosophy is the study of fundamental problems of reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language, not how the study is done. Science therefore is most certainly a philosophy. The fact that these things have been studied using techniques different from science, and the scientific method has demonstrated a pragmatic potency unparalleled by those earlier methods, doesn't change the fact that science is still a philopsphy, just as the fact that Cars may have superceded horse and buggy does not change the fact that car is a vehicle just likethe buggy. The fact that you hate the word philosophy doesn't mean you can redefine it and force the definition on everyone else.
