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Article #31730Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
From: Daniel Packman
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:59
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:59
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In article <ggWzd.1613558$SM5.130785@news.easynews.com>, Sam Stone <sirian@mental.org> wrote: >Daniel Packman wrote: ..... >> The human origins of the scientific method are not >> at issue. >Oh? >Why not? Because the system works and works objectively independent of its origins. >When a species determines its level of awareness, either morally, >scientifically, or otherwise it is always pertinent to examine the >process and see if it is inherently representative of the biases of its >authors. Science itself doesn't have anything to do with determining awareness. Bias may indeed come into play if you use science for this purpose. ...... >That vaunted objectivity was not machine born, and those components >which now are still spring from human designed architecture. You are free to try to come up with an alternative objective system. -- Daniel Packman NCAR/ACD pack@ucar.edu
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X-Google-Thread: 1073ca,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: 1044e7,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: fec2a,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: 113415,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: 115ded,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: 111e4f,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: fbb8c,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073ca,gid1044e7,gidfec2a,gid113415,gid115ded,gid111e4f,gidfbb8c,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.asu.edu!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!noao.edu!ucar!not-for-mail From: pack@eos.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman) Newsgroups: co.general,talk.politics.guns,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.politics.usa.constitution.gun-rights,alt.politics.liberalism,co.denver.general,alt.politics.libertarian.gay Subject: Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution: Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:59:53 +0000 (UTC) Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research Lines: 31 Message-ID: <cqpiip$vkb$2@news.ucar.edu> References: <Od9zd.1004$qf5.599@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net> <p_rzd.7464150$6p.1175117@news.easynews.com> <cqobeu$m9j$1@news.ucar.edu> <ggWzd.1613558$SM5.130785@news.easynews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mop2.eos.ucar.edu X-Trace: news.ucar.edu 1104170393 32395 128.117.37.8 (27 Dec 2004 17:59:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.ucar.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:59:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: pack@eos.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman)