means something else that is hard to define, certainly hard to define in the context of a blog flamewar, but does not contradict the findings of science.
The findings of science are almost irrelevent. The means justify the ends. The usage of concepts that are not clearly and properly defined is incompatible with scientific methodology, and thus incompatible with science.
No sane, rational, and sufficiently-educated person puts forward arguments incompatible with science.
No sane, rational, and sufficiently-educated person puts forward arguments incompatible with science.
The problem with this statement is that it puts 99.999% of everyone ‘beyond the pale’. It disallows meaningful conversations about things which have huge functional impacts on all humans, but about which science has little of use or coherence to say. It cripples conversation about things which our current science deems impossible, without allowing for the certainty that key aspects of what is currently accepted science will be superseded in the future.
In other words, it is an example of a reasonable sounding thing to say that is almost perfectly useless. You have argued yourself into a box.
I would suggest that no sane, rational and sufficiently-educated person ascribes zero probability to irrational seeming propositions.
The findings of science are almost irrelevent. The means justify the ends. The usage of concepts that are not clearly and properly defined is incompatible with scientific methodology, and thus incompatible with science.
No sane, rational, and sufficiently-educated person puts forward arguments incompatible with science.
The problem with this statement is that it puts 99.999% of everyone ‘beyond the pale’. It disallows meaningful conversations about things which have huge functional impacts on all humans, but about which science has little of use or coherence to say. It cripples conversation about things which our current science deems impossible, without allowing for the certainty that key aspects of what is currently accepted science will be superseded in the future.
In other words, it is an example of a reasonable sounding thing to say that is almost perfectly useless. You have argued yourself into a box.
I would suggest that no sane, rational and sufficiently-educated person ascribes zero probability to irrational seeming propositions.