Re: Marriage is under fire!!

From: Jonathan Kirwan (jkirwan_at_easystreet.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:54:35 GMT

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:51:50 +0100, andy <news4@earthsong.free-online.co.uk>
wrote:

>There is a theoretical language, just not as complex as that used by
>western medicine. I'd have to know more about it in depth to say whether
>its predictions could be falsified in the way you're talking about. If
>chinese medicine was wholly useless, I doubt that it would have lasted as
>long as it has - it's not like things like people believing whether the
>sun moved round the earth, which didn't make much practical difference to
>their lives at the time.

If you read me closely, you'll see that I not only steered clear of saying that
it was useless, in practice, but went out of my way to make it clear that I
didn't intend such implications.

Knowing that the sun will rise tomorrow is useful, too. But it's not a theory
of science. It's a deduction *from* imaginative and independent theory.

There lies the key. Being useful or practical says nothing about whether or not
it's scientific.

>I don't have the energy to reply to the rest of this.

Understood. I apologize for writing too much.

Jon

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