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-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard Adams [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 12:12 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Different ways of knowing?


It almost sounds as though the sentiment here is that we only know the
'real' world through science...
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I think the key is that for certain things --- you betcha, science
definitely IS the only way to know about them. Not all things, to be sure (I
may know for certain that I love my wife, that pizza is tasty and that the
greatest living human being is Jerome Bettis.... but I can prove none of
them scientifically).

But when it comes to things like Bigfoot, then I have no problem saying that
science is the way to go. Or, for example, your sig lists you as a Health
Promotion Specialist... would you want to promote homeopathy or faith
healing as roads to good health? Sure they may not have any science to back
them up, but they use other ways of knowing, right?

Jonah Cohen
Outreach & Public Programs Manager
The Children's Museum (formerly the Science Center of Connecticut)

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