Russia Licenses Faith Healers
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This morning Russia Licenses Faith Healers topped my new mail. The one who forwarded it to me commented, They are soooo far ahead of us.
A brief search brought the article up in a number of places including a blog entitled Physics and Physicists. And this is just the type of strawman than both major and minor Oracles of Science would point out as an example of why faith should be left in the dust by the progress of science Which brings me to the three attributes of science as inferred (and at times stated/incarnated) by the six Oracles of Science, according to Karl Giberson and Mariano Artigas. Note: the first is not relevant to the above story, but I’m including it so all three are on the table.
- Science is mainly about origins and most scientists are working on some aspect of either cosmic or biological evolution.
- Scientists are either agnostic or atheistic.
- Science is incompatible with and even hostile to religion.
I confess that my two streams of thought are too much for one post, but none-the-less here you go and we’ll work them out in future posts (or through comments):
- Do we really need the Oracles of Science to guide or at least strongly influence the way we respond to news such as Russia Licenses Faith Healers or are the Oracles of Science only part of a larger drift in contemporary culture? Or possibly not even necessary to question Russia Licenses Faith Healers as such practices tied to money making have been questioned across time/culture.
- Do the above three attributes of science represent science in its totality? My short answer is No.
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My first take on those three “attributes of science” is that all three are false.
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Peter V
22 Dec 08 at 11:32 am
I wonder if the Oracles of Science mindset (i.e. choosing vehemently secular scientists as examplars rather than people like Collins) is part of the same movement as the so-called “new atheism” (Harris, Dennett, Dawkins, etc).
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Tim
22 Dec 08 at 5:32 pm