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- From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 17:46:42 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <1992Nov19.172655.27714@muddcs.claremont.edu>, dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green) writes:
- >->=*cough* What it looks like to me is that the person _believes_ that s/he
- >->=cannot know whether God exists. Unless you can point out to me how this
- >->=differs significantly from what you just said?
- >->
- >->I'll be glad to answer your question if you'll tell me what you think of the
- >->color of the shirt I'm wearing.
- >
- >Nice shade, though a bit on the loud side for my tastes.
-
- Hmmm. That's the first time I've ever heard standard blue chambray described
- as "loud." :-)
-
- >->NOW do you see the distinction?
- >
- >Mishael throws up his hands in a surrender gesture. "I suppose I use the term
- >`religion' for lack of a better term to use in that case. In my mind, still,
- >agnosticism is a belief _about_ God, `about' in this sense meaning `involving,'
- >or `concerning.'
-
- It's more a belief about myself: I don't know whether or not a god exists.
- Now, I'll admit that that DOES tell us a few things about any god that might
- exist, to wit: Either he is incapable of or has chosen not to make himself
- apparent to me, or having made himself apparent to me, he then erased all my
- memories of the event. Now, if you want to call those conclusions "beliefs
- about god" then I suppose I'd have to agree with you, but it does seem to be
- stretching things a bit.
-