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01-05-2014 5:35 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by marc9000
01-05-2014 4:04 PM

Hi Marc,
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The title of your thread is, "Two types of science," but if someone assigned me to read your message and then list your two types, the best I could come up with would be that one type of science has a larger body of available techniques and is observable by more human senses than the other. Is that all you meant? This is a difference in number and not in character and doesn't seem a very meaningful difference. And what happened to Faith's claims about the "unwitnessed/prehistoric past" being unamenable to study because of lack of witnesses from the past?
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Also, worldviews and other sources of scientific knowledge would be a different topic - could you please remove your last paragraph?
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I think it's relevant because if the application of the scientific method is weak enough, then other sources of knowledge (like mathematical improbability, or historic writings) would become comparable. That's the only way I'm willing to discuss it, and it's not important to me if it's in one of the science forums or not. If you won't promote it that's fine, but it may indicate that what Boulder-dash opened this thread with could have some merit.
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in other words, you're not willing to engage in a give and take with moderators, and if they refuse to promote your thread proposal precisely as submitted then they're fascists.
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I'm trying to give your topic a clear and precise focus. Work with me.
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