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This is a interesting discussion thread. The great mystery is that which unfolds before us.  Our greatest need is, perhaps certainty in action and direction.  It's a tension universal to all life forms at some level.

I think we ought to quit referring to science as a "thing." It's a process defined and refined by accepted and agreed upon practices.

Old beliefs die hard and persist for a multitude of reasons, but mostly because they sorta work well enough to get us through, and most of us don't need much more than that--for better or worse.  (Please understand, I'm not advocating ignorance and un-enlightenment.) Just stating the case.

The material and economic benefits derived from behavior and economics based upon scientific theory is perhaps the proccess's  greatest asset.

Charlie

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On Nov 21, 2012, at 12:51 PM, Martin Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> This is all very interesting and I am surprised that bias has not been
> mentioned and I dare not. This is far more interesting than discussing how
> politics can distort perceptions of science (if they knew anything about
> the topics to begin with). Rubio and the age of Earth, the bozos who don't
> understand female biology or evolution or climate change deniers are at the
> level of misunderstanding we are dealing with.
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> Martin
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