I have received a deluge of email responses to Laskey's wager. I find it
fascinating that with only a few exceptions, the skeptics copy the entire
list and the "believers" send me private messages expressing support. The
private messages generally say things like:
- You've articulated very well a philosophical position a lot like the one
I hold;
- You've got a lot of guts standing up there and saying these things. I
admire your courage.
- You just can't talk about these things to scientists who've got no
religion. They will never understand. They can't grok the concept. I
gave it up long ago as useless.
It seems to me that if I were a scientist in the time of Galileo, those
might be the kinds of things I'd say in private to someone who had the
moxie to go up against the bishops.
If science becomes the "closed-minded establishment" that won't listen to
anything not already on its radar screen, then it becomes something other
than science.
Kathy
