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Question: Why was F!.R!. Tennant so anti-science!?
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I do not believe Tennant was "so anti-science", but spoke about it's limitations!. Tennant finds that science deals with the repeatable and the common, and does so by abstracting from the unique and individual!. Science also has assumed a metaphysics that, at the beginning of science, was simply the assumptions of common sense (and that accounts for Tennant's observation that science itself has never been idealistic), and it has for many people today actually become metaphysics!. He also concludes in one of his arguements a conclusion concerning the ontal and the phenomenal, not as two worlds, but the world in itself and as it appears to us!. Tennant argues that science came to this distinction and in fact has gone beyond it: science today is neither ontal nor phenomenal but symbolic!. It does not reach reality at all!. Thus a third conclusion is developed: science is not metaphysics, nor is it equipped to discuss the grounds and validity of metaphysical knowledge!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Doctor Who!? Just kidding!.!.!.Tennant studied science at Cambridge!.!.!.taught science in Newcastle but was religious!.!.!.
Science and religion don't mix very well but one must know the one to understand the other!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm not sure but my guess is that he was an idiot!.Www@QuestionHome@Com