It doesn't, and that's the point I was making. You are what you accuse me of being (trying to call the kettle black).
Stay with me here. But even if I am guilty of something why does it make my statement any less true of you?
It doesn't. Did I say it did? That's why I'm saying how it's untrue by pointing to different things, and pointed to an example of where I followed reason.
It doesn't take a scientists to perform science, either
My point even in the other thread was this. Why can you with your non scientific philosophy degree claim to understand a scientific topic and at the same time discredit those who have scientific degrees but not in directly related fields? If anything a scientist in an indirectly related field would have at least some required background learning on the subject while you would not.
I
never discredit valid science.
Ever. I discredit pseudo-Science and name it for what it is becuase of what science is. Just because something quacks like a duck, doesn't mean that it's a duck. And what is my claim to knowing what science is? Other than the definition of science, which anyone can look up, there's the fact that science itself is a creation of philosophy. The justification for Science being what it is, is a philosophical justification. As I tried to point out before, science is the scientific method. The scientific method is an epistemological theory, which means it is a philosophical treatise. Any success science has had, it has gained through this epistemological theory - a philosophical theory. Don't you think that might give philosophers first hand knowledge on what makes science
science?
If I call myself a Christian, and I don't believe in God, am I a Christian?
And what you're still missing is that I'm taking the background learning to the background learning. In other words, I'm studying the logos, which makes up bio
logy. Science without logic isn't science, and it doesn't take a scientist to point out when that logic is missing. It's also why a philosophy degree can be used as a pre-law degree.
Because I know what
science is, I know when something is not science.