Comments on: Pray this doesn’t get passed

By: Pray This Doesn’t Get Passed | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine « halloweencutouts

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:54:17 +0000

[...] With the Amish, my mother and father would live with them for a month each year, to establish trust. The Amish refused to support any immunization because of their religious beliefs, but eventually, my step-father was able to convince them. ….. I had CSPAN on this morning. On opening the US House of Representatives for the healthcare debates, a Roman Catholic chaplain, the HOUSE CHAPLAIN, gave an innvocation. The house chaplain is a paid position–once, again, …Continue [...]

By: Pray this doesn’t get passed | Bad Astronomy | U Reader | Your daily news stop station ...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:46:41 +0000

[...] post: Pray this doesn’t get upheld | Bad Astronomy Submit this to Script & StyleShare this on BlinklistShare this on del.icio.usDigg this!Post [...]

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:48:09 +0000

@ ndt (103) -

Obviously, the hate is overflowing from you. I can see it from my house.

I’m hate-filled, too : I think that all of these decisions should be based on empirical data (which, as you have obviously worked out, is the criterion for hate in such matters).

By: Früv

Früv — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:21:19 +0000

My favourite part of this article was that when I read it in my news reader, the Google ad at the bottom was a scientology video!

By: ndt

ndt — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:15:38 +0000

I also think the government shouldn’t pay for weapons systems that don’t work. Does that mean I’m hate-filled?

By: Pray for Pay « Testament of Helplessness

Pray for Pay « Testament of Helplessness — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:24:16 +0000

[...] November 9, 2009 Jesse Leave a comment Go to comments A recent post at one of my favorite blogs, Bad Astronomy, linked me to another very good blog post at NeuroLogica, which went into detail about something a [...]

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:28:18 +0000

MC (67) said:

Sorry Phil. It was great getting to your blog on science, but the same things you are accusing faith-based organisation of, you are doing. Science=faith? You and your group are doing well together walling in too much hate-speech and negative talk bad-mouthing anyone who is not with you. I will now exercise my right not to visit your blog on science(?) anymore. Thanks

Well, if you ever do come back, perhaps you would deign to share with the rest of us exactly where Phil’s posts are “hate-filled”, and where he assumes that science = faith (if I take your cryptic remark correctly). Quoting specific examples would be best.

As far as I have been able to tell, science makes one large assumption, which is that the things we observe and measure genuinely correlate with a reality that is external to the self. I do not think this assumption is unreasonable, nor do I think it requires one to have faith, since one makes exactly the same assumption every time one crosses the road or eats a meal.