----- Original Message ----- From: "Marvin Long, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 10:36 PM Subject: Re: Evolution Question
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Dan Minette wrote: > > > The folks I cannot at all have a reasonable discussion are the > > postmodernists...the ones who believe that there is no truth, just competing > > narritives. > > > > Actually, to me, that sounds a lot like the assertion that science is not > about truth, but only about the testing of competing descriptions of > events. But, with PoMo, there is no effective test. If the arguement is simply that one cannot be totally objective, then I'd have lots of sympathy for it. But, as I wrote in my response to Trent, PoMo people are totally innoculated against falsification. Besides the fact that PoMo people don't like fundamentalists, why aren't evolution creationism equally valid narratives from a PoMo point of view? >I think we have to separate the basic tools and techniques of PoMo, which are useful, from the >hipper-than-thou PoMo "pose," which isn't. Well, what are they besides obtuseness? Every time I try to nail a PoMo person down, I get this elaborate complicated dance. Dan M.
