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- From: greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield)
- Subject: Re: [ACLU] Guardian of Liberty: American Civil Liberties Union
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.225759.18736@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
- References: <By1o4H.28L@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov22.040533.28473@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <722479037@sheol.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 22:57:59 EST
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- In article <722479037@sheol.UUCP> throopw@sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
- >:: "Creationism" is a religious dogma that, unlike scientific theories, is
- >:: not subject to scientific verification or revision based on new data.
- >:
- >: However, these same means of "scientific verification or revision"
- >: are based on unproveable assumptions about the nature of the
- >: universe (e.g. religious articles of faith.) It is therefore
- >: not a valid means of applying the First Amendment.
- >
- >A problem with Frank's presentation above is that, while both
- >"scientific" and "religious" models of the world involve "unproveable
- >assumptions", under the scientific method these assumptions are allowed
- >to change to meet new data or to better account for old data, while the
- >same is not true of assumptions under the religious method of thought.
-
- What do you mean? Didn't you hear that the Pope just declared that
- Galileo *was* correct??!! :)
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-
- --
- J. S. Greenfield greeny@top.cis.syr.edu
- (I like to put 'greeny' here,
- but my d*mn system wants a
- *real* name!) "What's the difference between an orange?"
-