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- From: dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green)
- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.203953.4479@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
- References: <1992Nov17.223926.14301@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1992Nov18.043643.16303@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1edn7hINNrsm@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:39:53 GMT
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- In article <1edn7hINNrsm@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- ->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"?
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- This person's attendance of church says absolutely nothing about his belief.
- That's the important part.
-
- ->=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?
-
- To answer a question with a question: How would an agnostic respond if I
- were to ask, "What do you believe about God?"
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- dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu David "Mishael" Green
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