Interesting TED talk outlines how religions are so demonstratively wrong. The search for hard-to-vary explanations is the origin of all progress. It’s the basic regulating principle of the enlightenment. So, in science, two false approaches blight progress. One is well known — untestable theories, such as; prove God doesnt exist!. But the more important one is explanation-less theories. Whenever you’re told that some existing statistical trend will continue, but you aren’t given a hard-to-vary account of that trend, you’re being told a wizard did it. When you’re told that carrots have human rights because they share half our genes, but not how gene percentages confer rights… wizard. When someone announces that the nature-nurture debate has been settled because there’s evidence that a given percentage of our political opinions are genetically inherited, but they don’t explain how genes cause opinions, they’ve settled nothing. This is assertion with a complete disregard to a burden a truth that needs to be addressed when making such claims. The truth consists of hard-to-vary assertions about reality, that is the most important fact of the physical world. It’s a fact itself unseen, yet impossible to vary.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 06:26:12 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015