Hi Ian, >From your response, I get the notion that somehow faith is somehow a bad thing. I am not sure where you derive this opinion from. Somehow if science is faith-based it is worse. I am not sure of what yardstick you are using. Let me put it this way: Our understanding is a function of neuronal connections in our brains that make patterns. These patterns result as we interact with the environment. One can state that some of these patterns are better than others, but then one has to have a reason why. From the outside they just appear as patterns of different kinds. These things are only real in our heads, there is no absolute measure. The fact that you would consider this to be extreme just points to a deep seeded faith which cannot be questioned.
It is fine to believe that some things are better than others, but that is just an opinion, just as my saying this is just an opinion. It is also fine to disagree, and I have no problem who reads my posts. The worst thing however is to righteously put one's head in the sand. IMHO, of course, Mark Mark, inserted ... (Arlo mentioned) On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:18 AM, markhsmit <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ian, > > I believe that everything should be questioned. [IG] I don't actually. I believe everything should be open to question ... but constant questioning and criticism to the exclusion of more creative & synthetic pursuits is bad news. Creation needs insuating from criticism until viable patterns come into play. Evolution would get nowhere if our policy was to kill ever germ at conception. People need moral policy in their questioning too. > Even science as > a faith. Its view seems to be so accepted that it is abused. > I am not sure what faith-based means, in my view it is > all faith. None of it is bad. [IG] This is why I'm unlikely to read any of your material Mark. That is too extreme to be credible . Science is not ALL faith by any stretch of the imagination. I do plug away at science's blind-spots to faith-based aspects, but Arlo is right to react to your extreme position. None of "x" is bad - is an equally ludicrous extreme too. Some thing ARE better than others - that's the whole point. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
