Thread 16831336

A true rational materialist admits to himself that money spent on astrophysics, evolutionary biology, geology below a depth of 100m, and any other field to do with the origins of life, the universe and everything, is money wasted.

We don't have the instruments to say anything meaningful on that scale. We certainly try to, and then a new instrument comes out, and all of what was believed is thrown out.
It isn't ""updated"", please anon, please.
Its not a "slow march of scientific progress" in theory.
We don't need theorists.
We need better instruments, and that is where the money should go.

If you disagree with this point of view you are a follower of scientism who wants his answees nowie!, and a dogma loving religious retard uncomfortable with uncertainty, same as any other.

>>16831336 (OP)
>A true rational materialist admits to himself that money spent on ... evolutionary biology ... is money wasted.
I dunno man, I'm receiving money for evolutionary study of animals right now and the findings and papers from this work have contributed to conversational policy regarding those animals already, helping preserve their populations in the untouched state.

I think any true rational materialist will agree that keeping forests full of nice animals is not a waste of money.

>If you disagree with this point of view you are a follower of scientism who wants his answees nowie!
Well we need conversational policy "nowie!", or there won't be anything to conserve down the line when we have "better instruments".

Not to mention to that you can't develop "better instruments" in isolation from solution of current, practical issues. Nei worked with human blood protein polymorphism, Okazaki studied how bacteriophage T4 effected E coli cultures, and Frankham was inbreeding fruit flies - which all lead to developing the multitude of "better tools", without which even the prospects of developing "even better tools" would be impossible.

>It isn't ""updated""
Nah, it generally very much is, and the process is much slower and gradual than most think.

>>16831336 (OP)
A true rational materialist is aware that money cannot be wasted. It simply circulated in the economy