Nuggin:
For the scientist, the idea of altering facts to fit beliefs is beyond reason. For the fundamentalist, the idea of abandoning one’s beliefs is unacceptable. As such, these two can never come to an understanding.
These two
what can never 'come to an understanding'?
These two
groups of people?
If so, you could be right. But I submit the existence of a false premise: Groupthink.
Who says there are only two camps? Who says their membership doesn't overlap?
How would one camp negotiate an 'understanding' with another? How do these camps handle treaties? How would one camp surrender to another? Call a meeting and vote? Lay hands on James Dobson or Stephen Hawking and send him out waving a white flag? Send him out where?
Or do you mean two
ways of thinking?
That would be different. Abandon Groupthink and seemingly intractable problems suddenly look more managable.
These two ways of thinking come to terms every day... within each individual. It's an alchemy we all practice.
___
Archer
All species are transitional.
™ Version 4.2