Thanks for that Obviously
It's reassuring to know that there are pockets of sanity here!
Yes i do believe in the process of evolution.
And I am a great believer in rationalism & being reasonable.
But i think we have to take into account the uncertainty element if only to remain balanced and 'reasonable' if we want to truly know and be as close to reality as possible.
If we don't then we run the risk of unbalance and being boxed in by our own beliefs and prejudice which can make us blind & oblivious.
Too much rationality is grotesque as well as too much irrationality. Neither demonstrates the truth, but both perspectives utilized properly may bring us closer to it.
To deny one in favour of the other is akin to cutting our right leg off in favour for the right. Better to be standing on both and gain more balance.
Fundamental rationalists as demonstrated on here are terrified or irrationality and the possibility that they might not have all the answers or worse still might never have! They are also terrified of such things as uncertainty, imagination and no doubt the unconscious or subconscious.
Because they fear they might be made gullible, vulnerable, made to look a fool, be misled, or may even go insane should they even consider or explore such things.
It's a terrible shame that they deny even before they try. It's not good science to simply turn your back on a thing just because you wish it not to exist within your reality. It's a shame that even after so many accounts and much evidence to the fact there is an explicable part to human life and experience that are sometimes difficult to explain, they still refuse to even consider the possibility.
Neo-mystics are not trying to pull down the age of reason and rationality, they are trying to add to it in order to make it whole.
That was an excellent article i posted by Nathaniel Brandon about the 'Stolen Concept Fallacy' it was the perfect argument to refute my original claims, and that's what's so great about it. Two extremes that are both valid, somewhere in between lays the truth. And that's what's a great advantage of the forum, to be able to gain balance and perspective.
Shame Susan didn't read it, she might have made a much better argument than resorting to pulling the ridiculous out of the hat in an attempt to appear reasonable.
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/cata...n_concept.html