David Brooks’ opinion
(expressed via: Sidney Awards Highlight Conflicts in Belief and Science; published in the
Austin American Statesman’s Viewpoints) attempts to support the right wing
ideologues’ insistence that there is conflict twixt belief and science; there
is not.
Brooks oversimplifies, as
conservatives are wont to do, and imagines a one or the other version of
reality. Beliefs can explain all, but can
not be checked using an independently verifiable proof. Science (facts) can be checked via said
proofs, but can not (as yet) explain everything.
Facts require no belief and
beliefs require no facts, but neither functions well alone. Belief, once proven, becomes fact; as Alchemy
morphed, through experimentation, to become Chemistry.
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