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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
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 Posted - 09/10/2002 : 10:48:44 [Permalink]
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Here at sfn it is generally inferred that sceptic means to doubt everything, which to me implies a fair degree of closed mindedness.
Hum, To me, both those statements seem the opposit of the way things are. Probably depends on which folder and subject you are reading though.
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NubiWan
Skeptic Friend
USA
424 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2002 : 20:07:57 [Permalink]
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To paraphrase Lars_H;
",..having an open mind means that one attempts to approach new ideas without bias or prejudice." Works pretty good for me, granting, that we all do have our own bias.
"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." -Voltaire |
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Slater
SFN Regular
USA
1668 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2002 : 10:20:09 [Permalink]
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With cryptozoology, we are still finding new species almost daily, recently a new species of shark was discovered, which indicates to me that we MAY still find some large fish in the ocean depths. I in no way endorse big foot or loch ness monster claims however.
This is a misunderstanding of what cryptozoology is. What you are describing is ordinary Zoology.
In Zoology you find a new critter and then describe it from your observations.
In Cryptozoology you first describe a new critter, be it Big Foot or some Apatosaurus living in the Congo, and then you go out to look for it, insisting without evidence that it exists.
One is a science and the other works in exactly the same way religion does.
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My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ---Thomas Henry Huxley, 1860 |
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