… The poetic beauty of science - The Spectator - news, politics, life & arts. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Science is not a patriarchal instrument of colonial oppression. Nor is it a social construct. It’s simply true. Or at least truth is real and science is the best way we have of finding it. ‘Alternative ways of knowing’ may be consoling, they may be sincere, they may be quaint, they may have a poetic or mythic beauty, but the one thing they are not is true. As well as being real, moreover, science has a crystalline, poetic beauty of its own.
Well, here we have Dawkins once again practicing philosophy without a license. So Aristotle and Plato never arrived at any truth. The guy is an ass.
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