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- From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
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- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 15:24:33 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <1992Nov18.043643.16303@muddcs.claremont.edu>, dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green) writes:
- =->Then again, why does believing in a deity or being a Christian, make you more
- =->moral than anyone else? Especially when empirical evidence doesn't show a
- =->clear cut difference.
-
- =Because I happened to draw my moral code from the teachings of the Bible. If
- =I didn't have the Bible, things might be different.
-
- That means that if someone behaves exactly like a Christian (except he doesn't
- go to church), then he's STILL less moral than the Christian? Who was it who
- said something like "By their fruits shall ye know them"?
-
- =->If you consider agnosticism or weak atheism ("I don't believe in a god because
- =->I've never seen any evidence of one, but I recognize that's not a proof of
- =->non-existence; still, what choice do I have for where does believing in things
- =->that I have no evidence for stop?") a religion, then everything is a religion
- =->and religion becomes a less useful word because it can no longer be used to
- =->categorize in that manner.
- =
- =I don't follow this point at all. I consider atheism and agnosticism to be
- =religions in that they are a series of beliefs about God.
-
- "I don't know" is now a belief?
-