Owl
desert pelican
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2008
- Messages
- 717
- MBTI Type
- INTP
Do you believe in anything? Is your tendancy to except whatever science adheres to, or does agnosticism rule? Are you as varied as everyone else in the general population? I'm not looking for an argument, nor a debate (i.e. my views in any direction don't come into play).
Early in life, I devoured the scientific worldview. After all, it strives for objectivity and it presents itself as rational--two qualities I think NT's highly value.
I find it easy to believe that many (most) of the NT's alive today are either into scientism or agnosticism. The history of science and philosophy is a history of error, and this will likely cause an NT to suspend judgment. However, the failed Enlightenment rationalist program caused many to believe that the closest one could get to objectivity is through the empirical, scientific method--making it the de facto position for those seeking objective truth, (even if it presents it in a fallibilist form).