| Posté par F. Tremblay , Aug 08,2002,19:13 | Index | Forum |
"It does no good to try to explain something as being a product of science rather than magic, in speaking to people who have no idea what is meant by "science" and who have a culturally-induced antipathy to rational thinking. They lack the basic conceptual machinery that makes any rational account of an objective world possible. They don't seem to share the ordinary, commonsense notions of causality and consistency that are necessary to even begin understanding the universe. They don't grasp that the same causes always produce the same results. They don't see anything natural about predictability at all. (...) They talk instead about magic and mysticism."