Re:We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know (2016)
by JadeNB on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @03:03PM
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Although I vehemently disagree with the idea that "science and rationality … [is] another religion"—I'd be OK if we substituted 'dogma' instead—this is exactly the kind of thing that I would have liked to see when I came here, to give me some context and an idea of whether I wanted to read the post. I still think that many of the ideas, even if phrased within a socal-theory framework, don't apply just in that setting—interacting critically with anything is an important skill, soft science, hard science, or non-science—but your alternate perspective is much appreciated.
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Re:We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know (2016)
by mistermann on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:05AM
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Not science and rationality themselves of course, but human's faith that they're all we need. Religions, flawed as they may be, offered some guidance that we kind of just assume will work itself out. The news seems to suggest otherwise.