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What's your position on....

Post 1

Ménalque

Sorry, just wanted to know, are you sceptical of everything, or just specific things.
In particular, I would like to know your line on science. Are you equally as critical of science's 'facts', scientific method, development through falsifying etc as you would be on religion.

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What's your position on....

Post 2

R. Daneel Olivaw -- (User 201118) (Member FFFF, ARS, and DOS) ( -O- )

Why not post your question on he signup thread and we can have a vote, if anyone's left subscribed to it--you'll probably get more interesting responces since more people are subscribed there.


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Post 3

Hoovooloo


"Are you equally as critical of science's 'facts', scientific method, development through falsifying etc as you would be on religion."

Not sure what you mean here.

Science *is* scepticism, in large part. You propose a hypothesis, you test it. It's confirmed, or not. If not, you throw it out. If it is, you develop a theory to explain it. You tell the theory to someone else, and they test it. If the theory fails their test, you throw it out. If it passes, you test it some more. And you keep testing it until it fails, then you make a better one. Scepticism - the testing of ideas against evidence - is what science IS.


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