If both
Chip Van Hassel
Science and Religion
have become a disservice,
What is left?
To allow “scientists,”
Allusion to:
to retain the privilege which
they have gained
in some measure over time,
without holding individual scientists accountable for their words
would accomplish
these two things:
1. It would render science a disservice.
2. It would render society a disservice.
The Day The Universe Changed. Copyright; 1984, James Burke. NY ISBN: 0-316-11706-4
1. page 337
“When humans understood that the earth was flat and it was the center of the universe, all life revolved around that truth. Then, Galileo introduced his telescope. And with that single innovation, architecture, music, literature, science, politics—all of it changed, mirroring the new view of truth. This program is James Burke’s examination of the moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man’s understanding of himself and the world around him.
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Few people are able to look at human history and see it not as a jumble of half-remembered names and dates, but as an intricate mosaic of neatly interlocking pieces. Fewer still can describe the patterns and explain the parts of the puzzle so that it not only makes sense, but so that it also fascinates and intrigues, excites and entertains. James Burke tells history like it’s the plot of the most interesting mystery ever written.“
“The truth is relative. This relative view is generally shunned. It is supposed by the left to dilute commitment and by the right to leave society defenseless. In fact, it renders everybody equally responsible for the structure adopted by the group…knowledge would then properly include the study of the structure itself. Such a system would permit a type of ‘balanced anarchy’ in which all interests could be represented in a continuous reappraisal of the social requirements for knowledge and the value of judgement to be applied in directing the search for that knowledge. The view that this would endanger the position of the expert by imposing on his work the judgement of the layman ignores the fact that science has always been the product of social needs, consciously expressed or not. Science may very well be a vital part of human endeavor, but for it to retain the privilege which it has gained over centuries of being in some measure accountable, would be to both render science itself and society a disservice. It is time that knowledge became more accessible to whom those it properly belongs.”
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