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setembro 30, 2006
Ciência a nú revela-se Naturalista...
Coloquei na Hemeroteca um excelente artigo de Steven D. Schafersman escrito em 1997, que diz essencialmente tudo o que todos sempre quiseram saber sobre epistemologia de Ciência, mas tinham vergonha de perguntar.
Pelo menos desde a sua publicação permanece negada, aos partidários do Intelligent Design, a "cobiça" pelo título de cientistas. Cito de lá:
"Our culture persistently indulges and celebrates supernaturalism, and most people, including some scientists, refuse to systematically understand naturalism and its consequences. This paper proposes to show that naturalism is essential to the success of scientific understanding, and it examines and criticizes the claims of pseudoscientists and theistic philosophers that science should employ supernatural explanations as part of its normal practice."
Quero também destacar um apelo do autor, para sugerir ao Vasco que meta as mãos à obra:
"Why don't creationists attack something like thermodynamic theory or the theory of plate tectonics for a change? It is no fun to have to spend time dealing with creationist literature, but the degree of understanding of science among the public is so small that many people can be and are fooled by creationist arguments, so someone who understands the issues needs to deal with it."
Publicado por Santiago às setembro 30, 2006 09:43 AM
Comentários
Einstein quotes:
'Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind'
'I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details'
'We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality'
'There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance'
'The only real valuable thing is intuition'
'To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.'
'Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.'
Einstein um pseudcientista?
'Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.'
'The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.'
Einstein
Publicado por: poimandro às outubro 1, 2006 11:30 PM