Re: [asa] on science and meta-science

"Can you teach science without any metaphysical interpretation at all?"

Or to push Gregory's conclusion farther... Even reductionist materialists
can't do it. They just fantasize that they can. But if anybody could achieve
such a feat or the best possible approximation to it, I would bet on the
religious thinker of scientific sensibility over the irreligious one.

--Merv

Quoting Gregory Arago <gregoryarago@yahoo.ca>:

> David C. wrote:
>
> "Can you teach science without any metaphysical interpretation at all?"
>
> Only if you're a reductionist! Or let's just be frank and say it clearer:
> smallminded. - G.A.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: David Clounch <david.clounch@gmail.com>
> To: Ted Davis <TDavis@messiah.edu>
> Cc: asa@calvin.edu; Schwarzwald <schwarzwald@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 11:25:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [asa] on science and meta-science
>
> Ted Said
> [quote]
> "for it tacitly
> assumes that one *can, in fact* take the metaphysics out of the science
> without gutting the science"
> [unquote]
>
> I wanted to ask if it is possible to teach science without any metaphysical
> context, but Ted seems to (almost) have asked this question in his text. 
>
> If the answer is no, then how much science can you teach without any
> metaphysical context?
>
> Let me phrase it differently. Can you teach science without any metaphysical
> interpretation at all?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave C
>
>
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