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[David Stockhoff]

On 12/23/2011 9:22 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>> Gerry Quinn: The experts don’t just tell me how it works, they produce extensive
>> and consistent mathematical models covering a wide range of domains and invite me
>> to pick holes in them, or carry out any experiment that might invalidate them.
>> Lee is spouting a tired old argument which uses cultural relativism to assail all
>> notions of objective truth.
> As I see it, if it is human-created it is, by definition, not objective truth. How
> could it be? Only God is objective. The rest of us were gestated in a womb and raised
> in an ape-like family and social community. No big black rectangles around that I can
> see...Math and science can have no claim on universal truth until we have multiple
> alien races across the universe demonstrating identical use.
>
> Cultural relativism? That's good! Using a political/social term as judgement of
> one's own universal superiority is what I was talking about in the previous post.
> Scientist= Priest. 		 	   		


Naturally, to a scientist or priest, that equal sign doesn't work at all.