Religion is a philosophy subsection? WOW.
Fred is great in general...
http://www.fredoneve...rame_Column.htm
A couple of quotes:
"I wonder whether the rigidly scientific approach to the world explains quite as much as we think it does (and we seem to think it explains everything)...."
"....Trouble comes when the sciences overstep their bounds. It is one thing to study physical phenomena, another to say that only physical phenomena exist. Here science blurs into ideology, an ideology being a systematic and emotionally held way of misunderstanding the world. A science is open and descriptive, an ideology closed and prescriptive. A scientists says, in principle at least, "Give me the facts and I will endeavor to derive a theory that describes them." The ideologist says, "I have the theory, and nothing that does not fit it can be a fact." Having chosen his rut, he never sees beyond it. This has not been the way of the greats of science, but of the middle ranks, adequate to swell a progress or work in a laboratory...."
Edit: I didn 't pick the quotes out. This whole section comes from here:
http://www.jerrypour...il371.html#Fred
Edited by scottl, 23 July 2005 - 12:42 AM.
