Dancing in the Rain(forest)
The Belle of New Orleans tried to show me once how to Tango. (Tori Amos)
...somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep ...disorder. (System of a Down)
Caught a lite sneeze,
Dreamed a little dream,
Made my own pretty hate machine. (Tori Amos)
Friday, November 25, 2005
The Empire Strike Back
New declaration of Benedictus Decimus Sixtus about Science:
"[Science is dominated by] demonstrability by experimentation. The fundamental questions of man, like to live and to die, are thus excluded from the domain of rationality, and left to the sphere of subjectivity. Hence, at the end, disappears the question that originated the universities, the one about the true and the good, substituted by the one about realizability". (English translation is mine, I take full responsibility for any error).
How he dare to speak about Science? Science IS experimentation! The only demonstrability IS by experimentation, the old, true, solid empiric method of Galileo&Co. How do you expect to work scientifically without experiments? Reading the Book?
Without experiment we don't have any instrument to discriminate the true from the untrue (or the probable from the unprobable). Without experiment we are prey of the worst relativism: everybody can say whatever he pleases and nobody can verify his claims. Given the battle against "moral relativism" that mr.Pope is fighting, I can hope in some of his comprehension? Yeah, apart from the fact that I fully endorse the "moral relativism" that Ratzinger stigmatizes as Evil. By symmetry, should I expect that mr.Pope endorse the "factual relativism" that we scientists dread so much?
So, given that the Catholic gerarchy dare to speak about Science, it is at least fair that a scientist like me speak about catholicism. Here's my symmetric reply:
"Catholicism is dominated by demonstrability through faith in Jesus Christ. As St.Paul said: 'If the resurrection of Christ is false then our faith is vain'. Then the fundamental question of man, as 'what is really true' and 'how to distinguish truth from falsity' are outside the domain of religion, and left to UnHoly people. Hence, at the end disappears the question that originated religion itself, the one about the relationship between humans and their environment and how to manage it, substituted by the ones about the trinity of God, the Resurrection, the Virgin Birth and similia."
Again, if the Church feel free to criticize scientific method, then it is completely free to not use any result that we have obtained from this method. Beginning with antibiotics. And good luck.
P.S. the title of this post is due to the striking resemblance between Ratzinger and Darth Sidious. Scaaary...
"[Science is dominated by] demonstrability by experimentation. The fundamental questions of man, like to live and to die, are thus excluded from the domain of rationality, and left to the sphere of subjectivity. Hence, at the end, disappears the question that originated the universities, the one about the true and the good, substituted by the one about realizability". (English translation is mine, I take full responsibility for any error).
How he dare to speak about Science? Science IS experimentation! The only demonstrability IS by experimentation, the old, true, solid empiric method of Galileo&Co. How do you expect to work scientifically without experiments? Reading the Book?
Without experiment we don't have any instrument to discriminate the true from the untrue (or the probable from the unprobable). Without experiment we are prey of the worst relativism: everybody can say whatever he pleases and nobody can verify his claims. Given the battle against "moral relativism" that mr.Pope is fighting, I can hope in some of his comprehension? Yeah, apart from the fact that I fully endorse the "moral relativism" that Ratzinger stigmatizes as Evil. By symmetry, should I expect that mr.Pope endorse the "factual relativism" that we scientists dread so much?
So, given that the Catholic gerarchy dare to speak about Science, it is at least fair that a scientist like me speak about catholicism. Here's my symmetric reply:
"Catholicism is dominated by demonstrability through faith in Jesus Christ. As St.Paul said: 'If the resurrection of Christ is false then our faith is vain'. Then the fundamental question of man, as 'what is really true' and 'how to distinguish truth from falsity' are outside the domain of religion, and left to UnHoly people. Hence, at the end disappears the question that originated religion itself, the one about the relationship between humans and their environment and how to manage it, substituted by the ones about the trinity of God, the Resurrection, the Virgin Birth and similia."
Again, if the Church feel free to criticize scientific method, then it is completely free to not use any result that we have obtained from this method. Beginning with antibiotics. And good luck.
P.S. the title of this post is due to the striking resemblance between Ratzinger and Darth Sidious. Scaaary...
:: posted by Gaijin, 05:39
