Then again, since I am ignorant as to how you use the term woo, I may be the reactionary.
On Sep 16, 5:09 pm, ornamentalmind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Taylor, I appreciate that fact that you use qualifiers such as “seem > to believe”, “prefer to believe”, “pretty much”, “not much”. I accept > your skeptical approach. > > I also appreciate your belief(s) about QM, Deepak Chopra, post- > modernism and knuckleheads. > > To be clear, my intention of posting the link to such a short yet, to > me, measured analysis of how “The current ideology of evolution is > entwined with the metaphysical beliefs of nineteenth-century > reductionism, set within a > universe that is causally closed to all nonphysical influences.” …was > only to present another view to current dogma as an attempt to support > my previous post which you questioned. > > I don’t remember your personal ontology nor can I tell what it is from > your comments here. So, I can not in good faith discuss this further > with you. > > Since “This freethought group consists of atheists, agnostics, > skeptics, freethinkers and so forth. This forum is for open and > critical discussions of ideas, concepts, religion, and so forth. > Personal attacks are discouraged.”, I didn’t expect snarky and > entrenched reactions. Silly me. > > On Sep 16, 3:14 pm, Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > <<information and/or data is found everywhere. I turn to him for > > knowledge and wisdom. . . your lack of coherent argument aside. >> > > > But you seem to believe those people who provide support for what you > > prefer to believe, much like our friend Charles Gilliam. > > > Quantum Mechanics has been appropriated by lots of new age people in > > order to provide pseudo scientific support for their personal, self- > > indulgent world views. Prime example is Deepak Chopra. > > > The author of that paper said pretty much nothing, so there's not much > > to argue against. All I hear is "evolution hurts my feelings." and > > "objective reality is a matter of opinion." That's post-modernism for > > you. Remember that Alan Sokal showed these people for the > > knuckleheads they were?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
