[lit-ideas] Re: Richard Dawkins on Kansas, scientific logic and mystery

  • From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:57:24 -0400

I was going to say that it's an odd coincidence that I read this article 
just this morning.  But I suspect I got it from the same place you did:  ALD
I saved it for my straight thinking class (which the powers that be in 
the gender studies department want to rename to avoid the "straight").
Ursula

Brian wrote:

>Excerpt:
>
>Science feeds on mystery... Mystery  that which we dont yet know;  
>that which we dont yet understand  is the mother lode that scientists  
>seek out. Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious.  
>Scientists exult in mystery for a very different reason: it gives  
>them something to do.
>
>Admissions of ignorance and mystification are vital to good science.  
>It is therefore galling, to say the least, when enemies of science  
>turn those constructive admissions around and abuse them for  
>political advantage. Worse, it threatens the enterprise of science  
>itself. This is exactly the effect that creationism or intelligent  
>design theory (ID) is having, especially because its propagandists  
>are slick, superficially plausible and, above all, well financed.
>
>
>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-196-1619264,00.html
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