re after years can we say that christian morality is kent sandvik sandvik newton apple com wrote in article c mw qr darkside osrhe uoknor edu bil okcforum osrhe edu bill conner wrote i d say that what one chooses to observe and how the observation is interpreted and what significance it s given depends a great deal on the values of the observer science is a human activity and as such is subject to the same potential for distortion as any other human activity the myth that scientists are above moral influence or ethical concern that their knowledge can be abstacted whole and pure from nature untainted by the biases of the scientist is nonsense bill this is wonderfully phrased i assume you understand that your statement is also undermining such human constructs as religion as well kent i ll accept this as a compliment although i m always a little paranoid when visiting a a thanks yes i do know the extent of the statements relevence it s what i think of as human nature i m not sure it undermines either religion or atheism since both claim special knowledge about the truth and since such claims are always suspect all we can learn from it is that humans are a very arrogant species my point is that we cannot ignore human nature when examining human claims the trick here then is to find some way to abstract our infinitely fallible nature from whatever reality is out there so we can see what there is to see i can think of no way this can be done bill
