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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.claremont.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU!LYDICK
  2. From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.callahans
  4. Subject: Re:  Science and god:  Are they incompatible?  If so, why?
  5. Date: 19 Nov 1992 13:07:05 GMT
  6. Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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  8. Distribution: world
  9. Message-ID: <1eg3hpINNf21@gap.caltech.edu>
  10. References: <1edn7hINNrsm@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov18.203953.4479@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1eefs2INN59v@gap.caltech.edu>,<1992Nov19.033314.13041@muddcs.claremont.edu>
  11. Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
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  13.  
  14. In article <1992Nov19.033314.13041@muddcs.claremont.edu>, dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green) writes:
  15. =In article <1eefs2INN59v@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
  16. =->In article <1992Nov18.203953.4479@muddcs.claremont.edu>, dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green) writes:
  17. =->=->"I don't know" is now a belief?
  18. =->=
  19. =->=To answer a question with a question: How would an agnostic respond if I
  20. =->=were to ask, "What do you believe about God?"
  21. =->
  22. =->An agnostic would respond along the lines of "The question is ill-formed.  I
  23. =->don't know whether or not god exists, so how can I possibly believe anything
  24. =->about it?"
  25. =
  26. =*cough* What it looks like to me is that the person _believes_ that s/he cannot
  27. =know whether God exists.  Unless you can point out to me how this differs
  28. =significantly from what you just said?
  29.  
  30. I'll be glad to answer your question if you'll tell me what you think of the
  31. color of the shirt I'm wearing.
  32.  
  33. NOW do you see the distinction?
  34.