--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > Exactly. To my mind, the most dangerous aspect of > > the push to teach ID as an "alternative theory" to > > evolution is that it blurs the distinction between > > science and metaphysics generally. That blurring-- > > a lack of understanding of the requirements of > > scientific standards--can make all kinds of > > pseudoscience seem more scientifically valid > > (including a lot of what emanates from the TMO). > > Every semester in my classes (general psychology, > human development, child development) I teach to > community college students I go over this. I explain > that science is a methodolgy of inquiry that requires > all concepts of a hypothesis to be quantifiable. If > you can't quantify it, it is not open to the > scientific method. But I also stress that human > experiencing is much larger than the domain defined by > science.
Good for you. And that last point is important to add. Have you ever read Ken Wilber on "subjective science"? There are huge areas of human experience that *could* be approached with a strict methodology of inquiry, just based on different types of procedures. He shows (in his book "Eye to Eye") how the foundational elements of the scientific method are employed in, for instance, the way Zen practitioners are traditionally "tested" for their achievement of satori. But these areas remain largely unexplored with any kind of rigor because they're regarded as "subjective" and therefore not accessible to science. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
