Found this on facebook. As is typical for leftist science fetishists, this gets it wrong on a variety of levels.
1) It's a Category Error.
2) It's a false binary choice.
3) Neither science or magic are ever the answer. Science is the method by which the questions are explored, and magic is an appeal to mysteries. No one answers the question, "Why did this happen?" by saying "science."
4) Science is definitionally limited to testable phenomena. It has nothing to say about anything outside its realm of inquiry.
I’m the enemy, ’cause I like to think; I like to read. I’m into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I’m the kind of guy who likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, “Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?” ...Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal? -Edgar Friendly, character in Demolition Man (1993).
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by the way is cosmology or paleantology therefore not science.
ReplyDeleteIf they are testable they can be a part of scientific inquiry.
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