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Old 02-14-2006, 09:15 AM  
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Originally Posted by punkworld
Although I mostly agree with you, I think you won't disagree with me that feelings and intuitions play a large part in the early stages of research.

of course not..... no one is purely objective..... but on the whole science tries not to be teleological. Speaking from experience in designing research questions, I've had hunches and intuitions, but looking back, those arose from my past research and or reading in the fields that I had done. Science building on previous science.

Religion on the other hand can be wholly created from scratch, and is usually teleological in nature from the start. It also tends to use itself as it's own evidence...i.e. "How was the earth created? ..... God, created it. How do we know that?....The Bible says so." Bad example but you get the idea
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