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- From: rwmurphr@wildcat.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert W Murphree)
- Subject: Re: Number of "religious scientists"
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:43:53 GMT
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- > By the way, in no way should you consider yourself alone. The
- > appropriation of 'science' as a new religion has a long past, and
- > there are currently many who would agree with you.
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- > dale bass
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- Historical examples of "Science" as Religion.
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- The Temple of Reason in the French Revolution.
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- Comte's 19nth Century religion of science with its prieshood of
- sociologists.
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- I've seen Theosophy described as a 19nth century contatenation of
- science and religion.
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- The current generation of Physics and Zen types(Fritz Capoff look out).
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- The Religions of Evolution-George Bernard Shaw a believer possibly?
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- Did any of these survive very long, except for Theosophy and Christian
- Science (Mary Baker Eddy)?
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- I think alot of science fiction has as its unspoken foundation the
- notion that the survival and spread of the descendants of earth
- outside the earth is a religeous goal (seems pretty stupid to me)
- which is a sort of religion of evolution.
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- I wonder if 200 years from now any of these new religions of science
- will seem as worthwhile in retrospect as even the worst ancient
- philosphical stoics or epicurians?
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