Re: [asa] What is exactly is a TE?

Greg, I'm selectively responding to just this one thing since I agree
mostly (I think) with most of the other things you have said (to the
extent that I understood them.), and time limitations prevent me from
writing any tomes tonight.

Gregory Arago wrote: (among other things)
> It's not that I have 'a low estimate of the evidence and explanatory
> power involved' [in evolutionary science], its more accurate to note
> that as a non-natural scientific thinker, I do not privilege 'science'
> or 'evidence' in the same way as you seem to do.
I think I may be more "on your page" on this one than you seem to give
me credit for. I may be saying certain things with my science teacher
hat on that make it appear that I esteem science above other
disciplines. But actually, if you were implying (and I think you were)
that science and its methodologies have been given undue authority above
the other so-called "softer" disciplines or even (especially) the
liberal arts, then I pick up this lament with you, and would dearly love
to see much more contribution from (not just psychology or sociology)
but the wider humanities on this particular "ism" in our culture. In
fact I wrote a rather lengthy essay on this very subject a year or two
ago and posted it on my personal web site. If you care to read it all
and/or react, you would be welcome. Here is the link:
http://www.mbitikofer.com/origins.htm And if you click on the
return link at the bottom of this essay, you will be at another page
with another origins essay (my 'origins matrix') that I also wrote.

--Merv

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Received on Sun Sep 9 19:08:26 2007