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In a message dated 3/31/2005 12:28:15 PM Central Standard Time,
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If the scientific method is out of the mainstream in our country it is time
to take a stronger stand against the effort to undermine empirical reality in
favor of dogma.
Ofcourse the nature of science is such that the notion of any one true
scientific method being carried out by "purely objective" scientists should be
brought in to question as well :-) I believe that the theory of evolution is the
best way that we now have of explaining how life developed on this earth
exactly because it is falsifiable. Unfortunately, the religious right have
grabbed on to this falsifiability argument to stake a claim for their beliefs,
which they will not allow to be held up for scutiny.
The main problem is when people don't want to hear the other side of an
argument, right or wrong. Good science should always be willing to lend a
critical ear.
Janine Prillaman
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