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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Win Smith who wrote (11981)	4/19/2001 2:06:57 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I decided that since there was content in your post, I would respond.....The point is not that there are no possible alternatives, but that we have no reason to reject the human world of personality and meaning and beauty in favor of the abstraction presented by scientism. Not only is there nothing incompatible with accepting science and the idea that it is not exhaustively descriptive of the universe in which we live, but we are surer of our existence as valuing persons than we are of remote inferences based solely on sensory data. Besides, there is reason to think that the perception of beauty and goodness is at least partially grounded in the nature of things, just as is our perception of color is, though less obviously so, and more in need of refinement. Only if we a priori excluded the possibility that the evaluations we make fallible but approximations to an objective state of affairs can reject it. On the direct evidence, the meaningful universe looks pretty solid..........