JOHN CHUCKMAN
RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CHRISTOPHER BROOKER IN THE TELEGRAPHA rubbishy playing with words, Mr. Booker.
Science cannot be a religion.
Science – true science, not the fraudsters on the edges – is a method.
It is a scrupulously defined method for establishing not truths – there are no “truths” in modern science – but as a way of understanding the way things work.
The method could take us anywhere, and the crucial characteristic of a scientific mind is that it is that it goes where the method leads.
Preconceptions have no role.
How can a method be a religion? Religion is nothing if it is not a set of tenets taken on faith as truth.
It cannot.
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