Re: [asa] Re: [asa] Believing Scripture but Playing by Science's Rules

Can anyone tell me what a paradigm really is? Is it just a pretentious word
of no meaning?

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
To: "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu>; "American Scientific Affiliation"
<asa@calvin.edu>; <wdwllace@sympatico.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 3:07 PM
Subject: [asa] Re: [asa] Believing Scripture but Playing by Science's Rules

> Dini's statement is even purer baloney than Ted suggests. The "Ph." in
> the current Ph.D. is a result of bundling lots of different disciplines
> into the "philosophy" category, going back to the days when what we now
> call "science" was "natural philosophy." Of course when someone gets a
> doctorate in some scientific field she/he is supposed to know something
> about the way in which that field works, its limitations &c but there
> seldom is any formal training in "philosophy of science" in the modern
> sense. Maybe there should be but there isn't. & this isn't limited to
> science. As a classical scholar my late father of course studied a
> certain amount of Greek & Latin philosophy but when he got a Ph.D. in
> classical philology I don't think he did much if any formal study of
> "philosophy of language."
>
> Shalom
> George
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu>
> To: "American Scientific Affiliation" <asa@calvin.edu>;
> <wdwllace@sympatico.ca>
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 8:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [asa] Believing Scripture but Playing by Science's Rules
>
>
> I want to comment on these closing lines from the Times article:
>
> <Dr. Dini, of Texas Tech, agreed. Scientists "ought to make certain the
> people they are conferring advanced degrees on understand the philosophy
> of science and are indeed philosophers of science," he said. "That's what
> Ph.D. stands for.">
>
> It's a nice sentiment, but I doubt that most scientists have much
> understanding of the philosophy of science. And what "philosophy of
> science" means to Dini is probably not what it means to Marcus Ross, or
> even me. There are various approaches to philosophy of science, and I
> suspect that Dini is thinking of something pretty strongly positivistic.
>
> List members may recall that I mentioned Ross some time back, in
> connection with talking about Kurt Wise and Paul Nelson as YECs with a new
> attitude--an attitude not appreciated in many YEC circles. I noted his
> contribution to the DVD on the Cambrian explosion that he did with Steve
> Meyer, esp the fact that he apparently accepted the earth's great age for
> purposes of doing the DVD.
>
> ted
>
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