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Author Topic:   The Interpretation of Evidence Colored by "GodSenseless" worldview
wj
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Message 45 of 74 (152133)
10-22-2004 9:00 PM
Reply to: Message 43 by RAZD
10-22-2004 4:10 PM


Re: and the answer is ... 42?
razd writes:
Each person will evaluate new ideas according to their accumulated (world view) ideas and either accept them as valid or reject them as nonsense.
Unfortunately this sounds like postmodernism. The best way to evaluate an idea is to test it against reality, not to compare it with one's worldview. This is why observation and experimenation are central to the scientific method. Ideas which can be independently observed in the real world or experimented upon by persons of different worldviews with the same outcome have value which is superior to an individual's worldview.

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