| From: Dr. Ed G (Avatar) | 27/09/2000
22:30:00 |
| Subject: re: Creationism | post id:
140856 |
| James Randi and Arthur C. Clark
have both made series of programs presenting and then debunking many and
various pseudoscientific claims/phenomena. James Randi's tend to be the
more vigorous and amusing, but often find his style somewhat over the top
coming just a little to close to zealotry. And I really don't think that
"pro-scientific" zealotry is much better than pseudoscientific
zealotry. With respect to creationism vs. science, while I do feel radical fundamentalism should be challenged in the free market of ideas, I think it is often more efficient to counter it on theological grounds than scientific grounds. I seems to me that fundamentalism is far more a political dogma than a spiritual belief, and scientific principles are not part of the founding tenets of that dogma, but theology is. And personally, my principle objection to creationism is not that it's "anti-scientific" but that it is, in my honest opinion, anti-intellectual (not to mention completely inconsistent) and as a consequence anti-spiritual. Soupie twist, Ed G.  | |