On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > You mean there is no difference between (say) Pinker & Summers on the > one hand, Levins, Lewontin, & Gould on the other? You take your notion > of science from the likes of Summers, which puts you on his side of the > argument. > > You have, I fear, a kneejerk response to the word "science," and run > around pasting that label on everything you don't like, whether it has > any connection to serius science or not.
I think Ravi was objecting to the tyranny of science. Science in the 21'st century has become what the Bible was in the middle ages - the ultimate arbiter of every important question. And if the science to answer certain questions does not exist, it becomes necessary to make something up. Who was it who said that "if God didn't exist, it'd be necessary to invent Him"? -raghu. -- Jesus loves you ... everyone else thinks you're an idiot. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
