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My religious attitude towards science.

What the scientific attitude is most basically is a commitment about values.

That is author Lee McIntyre speaking with my co-host Julian Walker in episode 75.

Lee's book is called How to Talk to a Science Denire.

It's a commitment about not wanting to fool ourselves with whatever we think is true and the idea

that we're going to test it against nature. It's a certain amount of humility.

There's a certain amount of cooperative spirit with other scientists.

That's something else that I think is really important about science is that there's this

community ethos of checking one another's work and being honest about it and not claiming that

your theory is right just because you're the one who came up with it but being willing as I said

to change your mind when the evidence shows that you're not right. That's something that I think

is humanity at its best. Hello dear listeners. So to start I want to pick out some keywords here

and explore them a little bit. McIntyre speaks of values of not wanting to fool ourselves of

humility of a cooperative spirit and a community ethos and the whole process or value of being

honest and not self-centered. Now these are all things that are valued in many types of community

including religious ones and what I think McIntyre might say is that at the center of the scientific

project lies the data, the material facts of the world and that serves as the pole star of honesty,

...