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- From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 03:25:06 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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- David says ...
- >->=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?
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- >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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- "I'd say: I have no beliefs about God. I don't know if any God exists or not,
- or in what form."
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- "That seems, to me, far too nebulous to be considered a religion. It's not
- even concrete enough to be a philosophy in and of itself, though such a
- statement can be the result of any of a number of philosophies."
-