Re: The Objectivity of Science

<whitesickle@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> IOW, scientists are human too.
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> Jim
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> In a nutshell...yes. And because of that they have the potential to
> cause great harm and death.

I think there's another possibility that we have to consider. Maybe a
scientifically accurate understanding of evolutionary theory--in and of
itself--is the thing that has potential to cause great harm and death, and
"incompetent" scientists with their scientifically erroneous but socially
comforting version of evolutionary theory are the only things staving off a
pandora's release of a scientifically accurate but socially poisonous
understanding of evolutionary theory. (I say this with full knowledge of my
own complicity in spreading the "poison.")

Sorry to always be the contrarian.

Jim






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