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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead
Why does everyone insist that this is the age of reason?
It seems the opposite to me. More the age of "Know-It-Allism," an age where a new pre-historic archaelogical find will be dismissed by experts as a natural formation without even sufficient investigation (Yonaguni.) It seems to me that scientists aren't doing their job of challenging current dogmas with new ideas.
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yeah, i meant "reason" as opposed to religious edict and divine command. i'll agree that there can be a certain dogmatic arrogance, especially among philosophers and those in the humanities, that causes people not to even consider other opinions before dismissing them out of hand. but this is still the age of reason in that the intellectual prerequisites for science and the investigation of reality with a view to drawing deductive or inductive conclusions based on the objective evidence have been satisfied -- my point was that you kind of have to wonder why those who are surrounded with such abundant evidence of the efficacy of reason would instead choose to follow its antithesis. (i believe reason and faith are antithetical; for that comment i feel a debate coming. . . .)