Re: Humanism in 2006


David V. wrote:
> downinthefolds@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I think humanists' efforts to combat the prejudices and
> > limitations of traditional religions are generally good
> > efforts and I share a lot there with people who call
> > themselves humanists. On the other hand I find that people
> > who call themselves humanists tend to accept that science's
> > mode of knowing and proof preclude the existence and validity
> > of other forms of gaining knowledge.....
>
> Yet you fail to show how "other forms of gaining knowledge" are
> better, or equal, to the scientific method.

Is it not a little self-referenial when, as is all too often the case,
the scientific-method is used to vindicate the scientific method? I
believe the scientific-method all too often channels us down a
particular form of only-verifiable knowledge to the exclusion of a
wider understanding, and appreciation, of the complex nature of
existence.
>
> --
> Dave
>
> ....If you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an
> ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish
> the useful ideas from the worthless ones - Carl Sagan, 1987.

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