Western Science

[Cyrus]

lsavage at westmont.edu wrote:

>Despite the feeling like a few of you are choosing to be cheeky and 
>intentionally dense, I'll clarify:
>
>I used the term "Western Science" because I felt that our discussion was 
>ruthlessly Western (i.e. dealing with this Western Literary Canon, Western 
>religion, etc.) And although I am not an expert in Eastern Science, what I do 
>know has led me to believe that the tensions and inferred duelisms between 
>science and religion in the Eastern Hemisphere differ from those with which we 
>are familiar.
>

Well, call me "cheeky" and "dense", if you like, but I still want to 
know what it is that you mean by "Eastern Science".

And of course this discussion is "western". This is where this sort of 
debate would take place in the first place. In "eastern" countries 
magical thinking is more than prevalent, it's the norm.

Cyrus