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%WORSHIPING SCIENTISTS PERSONAL ANALYTIC OBJECTIVE+790729
%QUANTITATIVE IDOL PRAISE EQUIPMENT TOOLS TECHNIQUE 790729
Human creations are the focus of scientists' worship.
Often they worship that which they and their kind have
created: equipment, tools, techniques, knowledge,
measurements, analyses, procedures, systems, objectivity,
sophistication, etc. Often they worship images of ultimate
reality while neglecting intimate personal relationships.
Through their ultimate concern for their images and the
tools for creating their images they block personal
communication, two-way dialogue. They come to live in a
non-personal world of their own creation. It is a very
orderly and unambiguous world in comparison to the world
of personal intimacy. It gives scientists a sense of
security and certainty which they have not experienced in
their personal lives. Through their worship of their
scientific images of ultimate reality--- they find a
measure of the security and affirmation which they have
not known through personal intimacy.
The overt worship of graven images, idols, can more
readily be evaluated than collusive worship which pretends
to be value-neutral. It is difficult to evaluate the
claims of a religion which claims that it is not a
religion. Institutions which embody the scientists'
ultimate concerns are in many ways similar to churches.
They have their rituals, their holy writings, their
taboos, and sources of revenue. Traditional religions
tend to have explicit theologies. Scientists tend not to
explicate their theologies; they pretend that everything
is based upon objective evidence and unbiased analysis.
Personal considerations presumably do not play a
determinative role in the decisions of scientists to
develop one theory, rather than another theory. For this
reason, the biases of scientists presumably do not merit
consideration or explication. Their findings are
presumably independent of their personal biases.
When people claim to be without bias, look carefully
to discover what biases they have. They at least have the
bias that they are without bias. They may be unaware of
other biases, or they may be aware of them, and have
reasons for keeping them hidden. It will be helpful to
discover what the "unbiased scientists" worship
uncritically and with trusting devotion.
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