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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 21:13:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.072757.29064@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- > To make this much stronger, 'All-powerful' and 'all-knowing'
- > is a concept outside of science. One cannot determine such a
- > concept within science.
-
- They're also concepts inside of paranoia and psychosis.
- Given the opportunity to make a Bayesian decision for a
- wager on whether God or psychosis is the causative agent
- behind religion, I'll bet the farm on the psychosis.
-
- > Religion has to accept nothing. Do you honestly think that the
- > Jains base their belief in reincarnation on *logic*?
-
- Certainly not, since it's a scientific impossibility.
- Atoms and energy do not fly from one dead body to another
- live body, except through well-explained methods of natural
- recycling.
-
- Unless you're willing to start arguing about the
- existence of "soul" (other than that which Motown
- so graciously gave to us, of course).
-
- >There is no
- > logic that explains basic facts of existence that must be
- > assumed.
-
- Except the "existence" of dieties?
-
- > Also, 'clearly not true' is in the eye of the beholder.
-
- Or of the syllogism.
-
- >>their religion - creationists and others. But don't blame religion for
- >>this; it's bad science AND bad theology. It is true that religion is
- >
- > It is perfectly consistent theology. It is *not* science.
-
- It's ridiculously bad theology that's been blown completely
- out of the water by all sorts of scientific discoveries.
- Evolution since the time of Darwin has been the sine qua
- non of antireligious scientific pursuits.
-
- --Blair
- "R-E-S-P-E-C-T
- Find out what it means to me."
- -Aretha Franklin
-