how similar are science and religion
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- Created on: 08-05-17 10:23
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- how similar are science and religion?
- radically different
- MERTON
- CUDOS:
- communalism: equal access to intellectual property to promote collaboration
- universalism: all contribute to science regardless or race, nationality, culture, gender
- disinterestedness: scientists are objective - benefitting society rather than personal gain
- organised scepticism: scientific claims must be exposed to critical scrutiny before being accepted
- CUDOS:
- POPPER
- falsification theory -deduction - must falsify theory over and over
- DAWKINS
- science is objective
- scienctists are neutral
- conclusions made based on evidence
- scientific enquiry is open
- MERTON
- very similar
- LYNCH:
- studied scientists studying lab rats
- anomalies were explained using previous theories
- LYNCH:
- radically different
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