Re: Dembski and Nelson at MIT and Tufts

Moorad Alexanian (alexanian@uncwil.edu)
Sun, 04 Apr 1999 14:32:08 -0400

Philosophers of science speak about science. Many scientists are really
neither interested nor qualified to talk about the philosophy of their
discipline. Many questions of importance are not biological in nature but
philosophical.

Moorad

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin O'Brien <Cuchulaine@worldnet.att.net>
To: Huxter4441@aol.com <Huxter4441@aol.com>; jayr@discovery.org
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Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: Dembski and Nelson at MIT and Tufts

>>
>>Why would a philosoper (Nelson) and a mathematician talk about biology?
>>
>
>Because they feel they are better qualified to establish the validity of
>biological concepts, especially since biologists are so biased that you
>cannot trust whatever they have to say about their fields of study.
>
>Kevin L. O'Brien
>