Tuesday 18 August 2015

A new criticism of science as an exclusive "way of knowing"

A new criticism of science as an exclusive "way of knowing"

By now I’m well familiar with arguments that science, like religion, is based on faith. That argument is often made by religionists to try to drag down science’s epistemology to the level of religion’s, and it’s bogus. It’s bogus because, as I’ve argued before, “faith” in science really means “confidence based on experience”—which is not at all the same thing as religion’s “faith” as “belief without evidence.”
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