Comments | pw201: PZ Myers on the radio

pw201

Jun 27, 2009 21:41

Did I mention I was on Christian talk radio once? No? Well, anyway, some other chap called PZ Myers was also on Premier Christian Radio's Unbelievable programme, talking about science and religion, a topic much discussed in blog-land recently. His Christian opposite number was Denis Alexander, who runs something called the Faraday Institute here in ( Read more... )

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ex_robhu June 27 2009, 23:36:21 UTC

IIRC Faraday got a years worth of funding to start, but that was it.

pw201 June 27 2009, 23:45:33 UTC

Fixed. My fault for not reading enough of the Wikipedia article.

brokenhut June 28 2009, 00:00:31 UTC

But Alexander is right that there are other legitimate ways to gain knowledge.

It's a shame no one ever lets on to what they might be, though.

pw201 June 28 2009, 00:12:11 UTC

If Inspector Morse tells me etc. etc., this is not science, but I don't think it's illegitimate.

ex_robhu June 28 2009, 02:36:43 UTC

Are you saying that the scientific method is the only way to gain legitimate knowledge?

brokenhut June 28 2009, 10:19:16 UTC

I ask again --- what are they, if they exist? What doesn't ultimately, come down to observation and testing?

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