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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
I am concerned at the pedestal that scientists are put on. It's like people believe their dedication to science somehow shields men from pride, greed, and plain old human error. There is also a tendency to see human thought and reasoning as somehow inferior if the person doesn't belong to this fraternity. We even had a poster on this thread declare that he studied global warming in university and knows for a fact that is caused by man. One wonders if he studied under a prof who dismissed the notion that human activity was the cause would he then embrace the other position so positively.
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I have more "faith" in science than you do. And you are right, some scientists do fall to pride, greed, and error. But the great thing about science is that, it is not centred around one person, but rather the whole collective. One scientists claiming to know something will have to stand up to the whole community and face criticism and verification of this findings. It would be unlikely that the whole collective would fall to pride, greed and error, a break down of that magnitude would be bad for everything.
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I for one am not going to trade my own limited human reasoning in for faith in any man(scientist or not); Nor will I surrender it to mere majority opinion.
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There is a difference between being subjective/skeptical and being ignorant/stubborn (not that I am calling you that). You are not putting your "faith" in any man, you are putting "faith" in science. There is a difference.