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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Jason Spaceman" |
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02 Jul 2007 01:00:27 AM |
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WingNutDaily columnist: Prostituting science |
From the article:
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As shamefully abusive of science as Gore is, the New Atheists are
arguably even worse due to the status of their nominal leader, Richard
Dawkins, as a former scientist. Dawkins no longer engages in science,
he is now little more than a professional propagandist for science,
and the scientific method is entirely missing from his latest screed,
"The God Delusion". And yet, what Dawkins is selling under a
fraudulent label is not science, in fact, it is not even atheism. The
1996 Humanist of the Year and vice-president of the British Humanist
Association confesses:
"As an academic scientist, I am a passionate Darwinian. ... But,
at the same time, as I support Darwinism as a scientist, I am a
passionate anti-Darwinian when it comes to politics and how we should
conduct our human affairs." - A Devil's Chaplain, p. 10.
Dawkins, like Gore, is selling an unscientific product, an avowedly
anti-scientific one, marketing it with the trappings of science in
order to ensnare the unwary, the insufficiently educated and the
too-easily impressed. There is no science to determine the optimal
level of ice on the planet any more than there is one that will tell
right from wrong or articulate the ideal system of government. Such
things are not only beyond the capacity of current scientody, they are
beyond the conceptual limits of the scientific method.
Science is very good at answering questions that begin with "what" and
"how," it is significantly less useful for answering questions that
begin with "should".
It is inherently dishonest to sell a political ideology through the
use of science. Such efforts should be disregarded by laymen and
decried by scientists, for the prostitution of their professional
means in the pursuit of unscientific ends can only taint their
profession in the cold eyes of history. What Gore and Dawkins are
doing now is no different than what Trofim Lysenko and Otmar Freiherr
von Verschuer did sixty years ago in the service of scientific
socialism and racial eugenics. Their abuse of science on behalf of
globalism and humanism will one day see both Gore and Dawkins
repudiated by scientists of the future, as Lysenko and Verschuer are
disavowed by scientists today.
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Read it at http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56465
J. Spaceman
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| User: "Bill M" |
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| Title: Re: WingNutDaily columnist: Prostituting science |
02 Jul 2007 08:40:41 AM |
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A totally unscientific screed against Richard Dawkins by a guy who claims to
be a scientist..
"Jason Spaceman" <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in message
news:g35h83lv1m9qs598v6ji2mjtetntcc4l5n@4ax.com...
From the article:
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As shamefully abusive of science as Gore is, the New Atheists are
arguably even worse due to the status of their nominal leader, Richard
Dawkins, as a former scientist. Dawkins no longer engages in science,
he is now little more than a professional propagandist for science,
and the scientific method is entirely missing from his latest screed,
"The God Delusion". And yet, what Dawkins is selling under a
fraudulent label is not science, in fact, it is not even atheism. The
1996 Humanist of the Year and vice-president of the British Humanist
Association confesses:
"As an academic scientist, I am a passionate Darwinian. ... But,
at the same time, as I support Darwinism as a scientist, I am a
passionate anti-Darwinian when it comes to politics and how we should
conduct our human affairs." - A Devil's Chaplain, p. 10.
Dawkins, like Gore, is selling an unscientific product, an avowedly
anti-scientific one, marketing it with the trappings of science in
order to ensnare the unwary, the insufficiently educated and the
too-easily impressed. There is no science to determine the optimal
level of ice on the planet any more than there is one that will tell
right from wrong or articulate the ideal system of government. Such
things are not only beyond the capacity of current scientody, they are
beyond the conceptual limits of the scientific method.
Science is very good at answering questions that begin with "what" and
"how," it is significantly less useful for answering questions that
begin with "should".
It is inherently dishonest to sell a political ideology through the
use of science. Such efforts should be disregarded by laymen and
decried by scientists, for the prostitution of their professional
means in the pursuit of unscientific ends can only taint their
profession in the cold eyes of history. What Gore and Dawkins are
doing now is no different than what Trofim Lysenko and Otmar Freiherr
von Verschuer did sixty years ago in the service of scientific
socialism and racial eugenics. Their abuse of science on behalf of
globalism and humanism will one day see both Gore and Dawkins
repudiated by scientists of the future, as Lysenko and Verschuer are
disavowed by scientists today.
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Read it at http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56465
J. Spaceman
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