Darren New wrote:
> (Note the lack of comment on your beliefs. This comment is about 
> science, not belief. :-)
> 
Hmm. Good call, given that I couldn't make much coherent out of it. It 
is, as honest scientists would tell you, basically meaningless. If you 
can't detect it, detect how it reacts with the world, or even if it 
does, and your hypothesis about its attributes does nothing to generate 
testable question, which "might" give a clearer view of the world, its 
no more useful to postulate god = love, than it is to postulate an 
undetectable tea pot in orbit of Pluto. A list of assertions is just 
that, a list of assertions. The problem isn't that people believe these 
things, or assert them in describing their beliefs, but that they quite 
often think that they should "replace" science. The left and right have 
similar groups of people in that respect, though, while for the right 
its assertions about gods, for the left its become assertion of a wacky 
mix of new age gibberish and altie medicine, on which the "same" basic 
argument gets made, "Scientists are all a huge conspiracy to deny the 
'spiritual' stuff in the world (which doesn't, from hundreds of years of 
evidence, actually work, or is, in the worst cases, a total con game) 
and replace it with a purely 'materialistic' view, which denies 
everything from magic healing crystals, to Exstenze male enhancement 
pills, to the divinity of Jesus (if your one of the people on the other 
end of the spectrum). That, as one doctor put it, any "alternative" to 
medicine, if it actually worked, would be called "medicine", doesn't 
faze such people any more than the other end of the woo line is 
disturbed by their total lack of any ability to show that prayer 
actually effects the recovery of "anyone" in a hospital (or, in the 
funniest case where one of their unthink-tanks ran a study, actually 
killed more people).

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