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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.164008.19485@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:40:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.142049.203282@uctvax.uct.ac.za> wnljam01@uctvax.uct.ac.za writes:
- >
- >--)) You are a religious scientist! Your religion is clearly humanism - this
- >makes man's reasoning autonomous and the ultimate reality. Humanism states
- >that there are no god's but those which man invents in his own mind. In other
- >words humanists exalt man as god.
- >It is very interesting to see how often scientists refer to the wonderful
- >workings of 'Nature' (capital n!!) in the literature. So many scientists
- >refuse to ascribe the observed incredible order and symmetry of nature to an
- >intelligent Creator God. I think this is plain stupid and the Bible calls
- >people who are blind to the genius in creation fools. Ditto.
-
- Whether it is 'stupid' or not is certainly not the business of
- science. And scientists should certainly refuse to ascribe behavior
- of the sort you mention to an 'intelligent Creator God' within
- science. What they do at other times is none of *my* business.
-
- dale bass
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