This wonderful piece beautifully underscores the crucial importance of science as a method and worldview. The hallmark of science ignorance is a tendency to praise its primacy when it comports with ones biases, but to discount its inevitable conclusions when it doesn’t.
As newborns and toddlers the kernel of scientific inquiry is inherent in us all as we first struggle to adapt to being in the world. Through an intrinsic curiosity we all possess at our genesis, that fuels a natural drive to observe, challenge, modify and assimilate, we insensibly acquire our most rudimentary capabilities of walking, talking and self-awareness. Our instinctive nature is de facto scientific.
But tragedy fatefully ensues when these inborn inclinations are allowed to atrophy through insufficient encouragement and cultivation. By a certain age what might have emerged as a lifelong pattern of critical thinking is arrested in many, who then easily fall victim to the variety of undisciplined reason permeating our contemporary discourse, where half-baked, purely utilitarian dogmas prosper.
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Robert Gavlak
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