At 10:49 AM 2/27/2009, you wrote:
[Ron]
Interesting how you made the point about faith. I particularly liked:
"We decide what is
right or wrong based on our intuitions, our emotional attachment to one set
of concepts or another or our personal estimation of the probability that
one view is not accurate than another. This then becomes a kind of belief in
the face of a lack of reason or evidence for that belief. I like to call
this a skip of faith. It bridges that gap of uncertainty by finding the
shallowest and narrowest point at which to ford the river of doubt."
I also think that what defines the term is by what means one is willing to
and be comfortable with, making that skip in certainty.
[Krimel]
You are right, comfort is a big issue. How much uncertainty can we tolerate.
You can get by on purely emotional responses if all you care about is "good"
or "bad". Any story will do. The tale of a giant dung beetle rolling the sun
across the heavens is no more or less reassuring than Copernicus and Newton.
But if you are curious about the details of how things hang together, you
will gravitate toward the greater precision of a mathematical analysis of
celestial mechanics. If all you care about is painting pictures and
expressing emotion the dung beetle works just fine.
Krimel,
And I suppose you are suggesting that it is an either/or
proposition? Science or sun pushing dung beetles? That type of
choice is ridiculous.
Marsha
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