“You can’t see electricity or microorganisms or love but you know they are real. It is not science that proves these things; rather, it is faith that makes them real. ”
Ed Cognoski responds:Yes, you can "see" electricity. You can "see" micro-organisms. You might not be able to "see" love, but science is starting to make discoveries about the chemical reactions and electrical impulses in the brain that influence this and other human emotions. None of this depends on "faith".
This is only one point that Mr Riddle gets wrong in this long essay. Mr Riddle has such a muddled notion of faith and science (and mathematics) that I despair of anyone untangling this mess.
In any case it won't be me, because Dallas Blog continues to block me from commenting on its Web site itself. Maybe "you got to have faith", because reasoned debate is not welcome.
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