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- From: mss2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.030200.15762@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:02:00 GMT
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- In article <1ebkddINNol2@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.050234.10394@midway.uchicago.edu>, mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
- >[90 lines detailing what is known in science as an unfalsifiable hypothesis
- >deleted]
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- >So, how long has that invisible 3 inch flying pink elephant been following you?
-
- "'Bout three weeks now. Only it's blue, not pink. Why do you
- ask?" Michael ponders his own statement, and wonders what Mike's been
- putting in the diet Coke. "But note that an unfalsifiable hypothesis
- is just that-- unfalsifiable. That means it's not scientific-- it
- does not mean that it isn't true. I point out that
- the existence of a real universe itself is equally nonfalsifiable. So
- is the applicability of logic to the real world. How do you choose
- _your_ axioms, good kzin?"
-
- Michael
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-
- --
- Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS "Indeed I tremble for my country
- mss2@midway.uchicago.edu when I reflect that God is just."
- mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on
- mss2@amber.uchicago.edu Virginia (1784)
-