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I noticed you're already down to (-1) and seem to be new to the site... Just a little pro-tip, don't bring out any views around here that go against the tenets
by kirse 18y ago
I noticed you're already down to (-1) and seem to be new to the site... Just a little pro-tip, don't bring out any views around here that go against the tenets of scientific naturalism.
If you do, you're generally assumed to be yet another irrational religious fundamentalist and the drive-by downmods will come faster than you could imagine. Awhile ago I couldn't even discuss design theory in contrast to biological evolution without getting dismissed as someone irrational who just had an axe to grind.
- raamdev 18y agoI'm relatively new here, so thanks for the tip! I consider myself very science-oriented and I dislike religion. I didn't even realize my comment might be viewed as going "against the naturalistic worldview", but now I know better. :)
- robg 18y agoThe problem of course is that naturalism has it's own limit or else it too becomes dogmaticism. There's stuff we just can't know from empirical observation. Indeed, I'd argue the question "why" has a genesis just beyond rational thought. Empiricism might help to explain away those urges but I don't see how it will ever address their origin.
- dmpayton 18y agoI'd like to say that you're mistaking HN with Reddit. I'd like to say that the people who are on HN are not so dense as to downmod legitimately intelligent discussion simply because they have a vendetta against religion. I'd like to say that people on HN are modded based on the content, not the subject, of their posts. I'd like to say that. But this is, after all, the Internet.