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Seems like an analytic statement to me. Define religious habits and especially ways of knowing, compare w/ scientific habits and ways of knowing and you'll find they are incompatible.
bc thinks JM forgot what he wrote, and (bc) sometimes has great difficulty understanding the religious mind.
p.s. I don't think it's anti-religious; it's just don't expect to get very far using religious methods in the lab. Just like don't expect to get very far using arithmetik to solve a differential equation -- well not very good example, as one can use numerical methods which are arithmetik. If it were a good example, would anyone believe my statement was an attack against arithmeticians?
Initially string theorists were compared to believers, because their results were not testable; well that's changed according to G. Kane (current PT).
On 2010, Nov 16, , at 15:13, William Robertson wrote:
You stated:
but I would maintain that anyone who brings traditional religious
habits and "ways of knowing" into the lab with them, at the very least
operates under a very significant handicap.
Okay, so I substituted severe for significant. In what other way did I
misrepresent what you said?
Bill
William C. Robertson, Ph.D.
On Nov 16, 2010, at 4:10 PM, John Mallinckrodt wrote:
William Robertson wrote:
You state that anyone with religious beliefs is operating under a
severe handicap when doing science.
Nope; sorry. Not what I said. Read it again.
That's not just an unbiased, objective view. It's anti-religion. To
make such a statement as if it's obvious to everyone is rather
arrogant and certainly not fair-minded. I believe that's the kind
of comment that raises Rick's ire.
If you want to take issue with what I said, I'm all ears, but please
don't construct and then attack straw men.
John Mallinckrodt
Cal Poly Pomona
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