Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!shark!hutch From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Here I Am Again Message-ID: <590@shark.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 02:03:10 EST Article-I.D.: shark.590 Posted: Sat Mar 10 02:03:10 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 09:13:22 EST References: <173@wdl1.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 24| Re: Creationism. But evolutionism is also based upon a religion, E called Scientism, whose practicioners are Scientists. Among the tenets v that we believers in Science accept on faith are these: e 1. The Universe works by a set of immutable laws. l 2. It is a highly moral act to attempt to discover these laws. y 3. Knowledge gained in laboratory conditions may be extrapolated n reasonably to the Universe at large. | 4. The Universal laws are at least in part discoverable. Note | that I said "we who believe in Science," not "we Scientists." I am not | a shaman. Sorry, Evelyn, but "scientism" is one of those fringe cultist groups. I vaguely recall it being used by the Dianetics (tm) people, along with Scientology (tm). A less disreputable word would be "Science-ism" since it is currently unstolen by the kooks. By the way, did my letter to you ever arrive, or is mail just stuck in the Berkeley 5-month holding pattern? Hutch