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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (22648)	10/11/2005 5:05:16 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

<By "methodically research" I was referring to the methodology of scientific experimentation. My point was that for virtually millions of years they had no essential knowledge base on fundamental laws so they had to imagine answers to all the unknowns. > Chinese medicine didn't simply 'imagine'.... but I hear you about the scientific method. Still the 'search for reality' in Taoist and Buddhist traditions were NOT imagining. The West typically assumes this is true, but it's not. Of course the scientific method and western sciences advances dwarf much of old knowlege, my point is simply that not everyone on the planet was running around like scared rabbits making up myths. BTW, even in the West we acknowlege the limitations of the 'scientific method' more and more each year. We have 'theoretical scientific' medicine for example, and 'clinical' medicine. The clinical side is why oriental medicine like acupuncture is becoming so popular even without a scientific basis. In this case, science is 'catching up' to 'experience'. DAK