From: "Tobin Nellhaus" <nellhaus-AT-mail.com> Subject: Re: BHA: God Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:49:47 -0400 Similarly, one might ask whether the argument that science is just one way of knowing doesn't slide headlong into judgmental relativism. At the very least, there needs to be a clear theory of what constitutes knowledge (as opposed to belief, myth, fiction, advertising puffery, etc). T. --- Tobin Nellhaus nellhaus-AT-mail.com "Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Engelskirchen" <howarde-AT-twcny.rr.com> To: <bhaskar-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU> Sent: Saturday, 12 June 2004 9:29 AM Subject: Re: BHA: God > But there's another issue, Mervyn: having taken deities on and situated > science as just one way of knowing, can critical realism any longer be > called a scientific realism? > > Howard > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mervyn Hartwig" <mh-AT-jaspere7.demon.co.uk> > To: <bhaskar-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU> > Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 4:42 AM > Subject: Re: BHA: God > > > > Not significant for you, but it always has been for the great majority > > of humans (though in the present case it's probably - Jamie could verify > > - not the supernatural that's being discussed but an immanent God). It's > > never too late to start thinking critically about anything! - and in > > particular how to arrive at a position that won't gratuitously offend > > religious people who are committed to emancipation or capable of moving > > in that direction but will instead provide a basis for > > unity-in-difference. > > > > If you don't want to think about these issues, that's fine. But then > > there's nothing further to be said. > > > > Mervyn > > > > Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu> writes > > >What about those of us who are atheists by birthright more than merit? I > > >mean, in my 74 years I have never found any reason to consider the > > >existence of the supernatural as a significant question for me. Hence > > >discussion of the rationality or irrationality of believing in god > > >simply strikes me as weird, since it presupposes a premise (that the > > >existence of god is a question worth considering) that simply has never > > >been part of my thinking, feeling, or practice. > > > > > >Carrol > > > > > > > > > > > > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > > > > > > > > > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > > > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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