[Taxacom] counting the number of species on Earth ... for the Ark

[Curtis Clark]

On 2014-02-25 5:40 PM, John Grehan wrote:
> What does the "choice between evidence and belief" really mean. 

I'm not using this in the politicized sense that you imply, but rather 
as the end points of a continuum. Science as a way of knowing relies 
absolutely on evidence, but science as a social system has a major 
belief and appeal-to-authority component. Plenty of scientists, 
historians of science, and philosophers of science have written about 
the good, the bad, and the ugly of the social systems of science.

-- 
Curtis Clark        http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark
Biological Sciences                   +1 909 869 4140
Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona CA 91768