As someone who loves science, I understand why scientists get impatient and riled up about those who reject the overwhelming evidence for evolution and human-caused climate change. I, too, am disturbed about the damage done by fanatical believers who not only insist on cultivating their ignorance, but also want to foist it on others. But I am far less sanguine about the scientists and science-lovers who wax arrogant and authoritative as they dogmatically dismiss all alternative medicine as pseudo-science that cant possibly work . . . I am perplexed by the scientists and science-lovers who assert with an angry omniscience that there are absolutely no concerns, none, never, about the safety of genetically engineered foods . . . I am amazed by the scientists and science-lovers who pontificate with unskeptical certainty, with a despotic and doctrinaire condescension more befitting a religious fundamentalist, that all so-called paranormal phenomena is impossible, that all consciousness stems solely from the activities of brain chemicals, that there is and cannot be any such thing as a soul or non-material intelligences or life after death. Ideas about evolution and human-caused climate change may come as close as we humans can approach to absolute truth about the material world. But those other things I mentioned dont belong in the same category. To vehemently insist that they do is not warranted or logical. And its certainly not scientific. - Rob Brezsny bit.ly/1spTQH0
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:08:35 +0000
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