RE: Worldview, was SCD's fruit juice gelatin

[Guest guest]

> And I'm not trying to get into a strict discussion of what

> a " pragmatist " is, esp. not in philisophical/religious circles!

> " Whatever works " is what I came up with after a long

> personal journey of trying to do what OTHER people

> told me would work and failing to accomplish what

> they told me would work. So I went back to

> " experiment! " . That's why I like Price. He didn't accept

> what other people were saying ... he went out, took

> pictures, did experiments.

Yes.

In the end theory is often a distractor. But a necessary one, I think.

Ron

[Guest guest]

>Yes.

>

>In the end theory is often a distractor. But a necessary one, I think.

>

>Ron

Yeah, I agree. It's a tough balance. Once you have a theory

it's hard to challenge it ... usually someone ELSE challenges it,

and in science that happens constantly and sometimes

amidst lots of sound and fury. But you can't be always in

a state of challenge, sometimes you need to just work with

your theory so you can get on with life.

Heidi

[Guest guest]

>I.e. I didn't say he was any of those things, just that the arguments on

>BOTH SIDES

>are very much based on the person's world view. Gottschall's

>world view is very different from mine.

See, that's the thing, Heidi. You look at this as a " world view " issue. I

look at it as a science and logic issue. Granted, science and logic

constitute a world view, but for purposes of this discussion, an example of

a different world view would be " God put wheat on Earth for us to eat so it

must be good " . (I know people who believe that, so it's not something I'm

making up, either.)

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