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

  • From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 19:21:37 +0100

I hadn't read it as I don't visit timesonline regularly (I have too
many web pages to check!!) so my thanks to Brian for the link.


Thursday, May 26, 2005, 6:57:24 PM, Ursula Stange wrote:

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

US> 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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