tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1948420587779787298.post937115801861018877..comments2023-06-16T05:25:55.741-07:00Comments on Elliptica: ObjectivityLynethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06357023675142716573noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1948420587779787298.post-11865232778656165352007-12-24T05:40:00.000-08:002007-12-24T05:40:00.000-08:00John Evo:I saw deGrasse Tyson on The Daily Show se...John Evo:<BR/>I saw deGrasse Tyson on <I>The Daily Show</I> several months ago. It was a great interview. His book is on my ever-growing to-buy-and-read list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1948420587779787298.post-58969885441782615742007-12-23T17:55:00.000-08:002007-12-23T17:55:00.000-08:00Lynet,That was a well thought out rebuttal to the ...Lynet,<BR/><BR/>That was a well thought out rebuttal to the “subjective truth” argument. I still smirk at the thought of it coming from a Christian though. It, left to itself, is at least as strong an argument <I>against</I> the idea of a Christian god with exacting principles! <BR/><BR/>Still you nailed it pretty well. I hope you get a chance to run it past your Christian friend and let us know what his response is.<BR/><BR/>I just started reading Death By Black Hole. In the first Chapter, deGrasse Tyson is talking about a quote from Edwin Hubble, “Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science”. Tyson goes on to show how desperately little we were able to learn through the millennia with the help of those 5 senses and what technology has done to facilitate learning. He then says, “Apologies to Edwin Hubble…Equipped with his five senses, along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors across the electromagnetic spectrum, we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science”.<BR/><BR/>Which parts of that are employed by religious pursuits?John Evohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10868904051881865159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1948420587779787298.post-45978058751681646552007-12-23T14:35:00.000-08:002007-12-23T14:35:00.000-08:00Nice clean explanation of objectivity and the way ...Nice clean explanation of objectivity and the way in which independent subjective minds can experience and communicate with other minds about a world outside of - yet common to - themselves.<BR/><BR/>Reviewing this comment, it's clear that your explanation is cleaner than mine. Good thing you wrote the post rather than me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com