Re: Mainly OT - human joint supplements?

Jill wrote:
Ocean of Nuance wrote:

Look, there is evidence-based science and there is faith.

And there is a huge amount of experience which is evidence, and is tested, but, frustratingly, not done with methodology that is acceptable by some sectors of the medical / veterinary world.

Experience is know to be faulty and unreliable. Here is a good explanation about it in a different context...

From: http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2007/03/Blogalogue-Sam-Harris-And-Andrew-Sullivan-Part-Two.aspx
(near top of page)

"Even seeing what is plainly before our eyes can be difficult (or impossible). Consider the following visual illusion (Roger Shepard's "Turning the Tables"):

These tabletops are exactly the same size and shape. Once you have used a ruler or tracing paper to satisfy yourself that this is true, they will still look different to you, based upon the way your brain has been hard-wired to interpret spatial cues. It seems quite likely that every person who has ever lived would perceive these figures as being different in shape and size-a far higher percentage than believe in God. The fact is that our intuitions are not always a reliable guide to the truth; and in certain situations, they can be relied upon to be wrong. So why should we think that our inability/reluctance to conceive of our own nonexistence offers an indication of what happens after death?" -- Sam Harris

Is there a difference between religion and homeopathy?

s
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Mainly OT - human joint supplements?
    ... And there is a huge amount of experience which is evidence, and is tested, but, frustratingly, not done with methodology that is acceptable by some sectors of the medical / veterinary world. ...
    (rec.equestrian)
  • Re: Kenneth Millers Interview with NOVA
    ... evidence to include experimental evidence. ... distance being one mutational step decline along a Poisson ... he has actually carried through his methodology on thousands of such ... Sean is unable to produce any data. ...
    (talk.origins)
  • Re: A Word with thicky Ricland
    ... The reaction was to rigorously assess your evidence which was found wanting. ... but judging from your posts, ... And I could be wrong again, Jill, ... Are you actually condoning what Richard van Shaik did? ...
    (soc.genealogy.britain)
  • Re: A message from Sean Pitman
    ... methodology for detecting "design" will show when nobody has ever ... Do *you* think that Sean has gone through the ... resistance to posting any evidence whatsoever that he has done so. ... Christian because an evolutionist would never approve of a real ...
    (talk.origins)
  • So what actually did happen?
    ... actually happened in prehistory that resulted in what history records? ... The evidence of differences of physical characteristics, ... amount of redundancy of dissemination occured. ... It is fatuous to regard what one cannot comprehend as fantasy. ...
    (talk.origins)
Loading