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To: Follies who wrote (43971)

10/12/2013 12:01:50 PM

From: koan

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This is because scientists are all educated in both inductive and deductive logic

No, It is because scientists are all educated in liberal institutions.

Smartest in the world, Penrose and Chomsky? Give me a break.

What you say is nonsense. Scientists are educated at every university in the world. And they all generally teach the same thing. Even the conservative universities. Every university teaches the earth revolves around the sun these days and evolution is true.

So if you look at what you just said above and apply logic, what that tells you is that universities, in general, worldwide, are liberal. Because they teach facts.

Facts are not liberal or conservative. They are just facts.

Why? Because science is science is science and doesn't change. Science is facts and facts don't change. So all universities teach facts the same way.

Will Durant says it perfectly in his books: The History of Civilization:

Will Durant:

The persistent effort to subordinate fancy to reason is the dominate quality of the Greek mind.

Ergo: Greek Literature is modern, or rather contemporary, as we find it hard to understand Dante or Milton, but Euripides and Thucydides are kin to us mentally and belong to our age.

This is because, though myths may differ, reason remains the same, and the life of reason, makes brothers of its lovers, in all times and everywhere.