Hi Arlo
Interesting the way this "all is faith" stuff is likely to go - once you
can get enough mugs to believe that there's no difference between
religion as faith and science as faith it's only a small step to show
that religion is so much better than science because of the strength of
faith needed to sustain the belief. After all science needs very little
faith so it's all a bit wimpy really. Strength obviously trumps weakness
so religious faith is best. It's so obvious now!! I've seen the light!
Cheers
Horse
ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote:
[Horse]
I was wondering.... would you think that the root cause of this faith-based
reductionist approach is the failure of Intelligent Design to gain the ground
the theists wanted...
[Arlo]
Yeah, I think this is a large part of it. I think too of the "creationist
institutes" that sought to use anthropology, geology, etc to "prove" that the
age of the earth was 4000 years old. This was largely (and rightly) ignored,
and so the next strategy seems to be "well, if my thinking the earth is only
4000 years old is a matter of faith, then your thinking its 4 billion years old
is simply a matter of faith too". This is mirrored in the strategies the ID'ers
have deployed as well. At first, ID was a "comparable science". Now, evolution
is "just another faith-based idea". Anti-intellectuals in this country have
latched onto this as a way to denigrate "science" from having any explanatory
superiority over "religion", using Asimov's term "Scientism" to portray
"science" as a religion itself.
[Horse]
Seems like it's time for a change of tack in theist-land and this could be the
new approach - if you can't match it try and drag it down to a lower level.
[Arlo]
That's how I see it too.
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