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Originally Posted by Kriminal99
I agree that science as an idea is not close minded, but I think that the average scientist is.
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A blanket statement that though maybe your opinion, does not map well onto "scientists". For the following reasons:
1. Not all scientist behave nor think the same. They are individuals and can think as they wish.
2. Science as followed by scientists are indoctrinated into a line of thinking that may have
some follow more than lead. This does not apply to all. And even a "follower" may come
up with such an innovative idea so as to become a future "leader" in his field.
3. The word "average" can not be used in any other fashion than to talk about the
aggregate of a collection. So an "average scientist" does not speak to any scientist in
particular. Otherwise this speaking wouldn't be scientific.
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Originally Posted by Kriminal99
They may be able to take bodies of knowledge that other people hand them and learn them detail by detail, but they could never create one. Knowing this, they come to the conclusion that science is only created piece by piece by tons of scientists figuring out one little thing at a time.
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Would this still be about the "average scientist" or are there "other" kinds ??
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Originally Posted by Kriminal99
Thus, whenever someone too creative comes along, they are angered and unobjective about it. "Who does this person think they are?" is the kind of crap you hear from people like this. In addition, though they may be able to work with a body of knowledge created by someone else, if there is anything left out of that body of knowledge that was just "known" to the person who created it, it may be violated by these types. For instance, they may violate a general principal of all human knowledge because it seemed like a valid manipulation or extension of a mathematical system.
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This is beginning to sound like a rant now (colored by personal experience)...
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