TravisLaw
Joined: 15 Nov 2010
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 Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 7:45 pm Post subject: Oppressed by Evolution |
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- What is the point of view of the fundamentalist right and the multicultural left.
- How might the ideas apply to your final project?
are the questions.
The point of view of the fundamentalist right and the multicultural left is that the moral result of Evolution is acting as a dictator. They see many ways of looking at the world, and feel like Evolution having the exclusive backing of Science is an attempt at mind control.
To me, this seems likely, and if it is true, then I would argue that the critics are forgetting what the context of science is. By context, I mean the goals, methods, and most important, assumptions which surround a discipline. If you tell a scientist that there must be many ways of looking at the world, and that facts are useless because they are subjective, you may be right, but the context of science says you are wrong. This is not because science is always right, or is the true authority, but because it is a necessary part of science.
Relating this to my final project, I think that the position of the critics of evolution are in is very similar to the position we were in today during class. We argue that something cannot be true because of an unimportant argument. The truth of what is being said (evolution, end of history, creationism) is only as far reaching as the assumptions necessary to define it. Fukuyama said that History is ending, but he based his process on a number of assumptions ranging from what scale is appropriate to use to which historical events he would discuss. This applies to everything, including evolution.
A true argument is only as good as its weakest link. This idea relates directly to my final project, as I have been defining disciplines of investigation based on the assumptions necessary for them. Science assumes that the world is real, History assumes that people are important, Math assumes basic properties of numbers, Philosophy assumes the importance of human thought, and so on. |
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