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To: Olog-hai
Olog-hai: "“Gnosis” does mean science, since “science” and “knowledge” are synonyms, and “epistemes” means art."

Your efforts to redefine the word "science" to suit your own peculiar purposes have been addressed by the US Supreme Court and ruled out of order.
You can't legally do it, at least not in government schools.

That's because the word "science" as is used in these discussions does not mean "knowledge" but rather today's word is short for "natural-science" which means, in short: only natural explanations for natural processes.

That is the opposite of the Greek Gnosis, which meant secret knowledge of spiritual matters.
Those are what concerned the Apostle Paul, not some new method for building ships or mining gold, or indeed some theory about which celestial body revolves around which others.

So I'll say it again: the Bible is not anti-science, but some of those who use it certainly are.
And that obviously includes Olog-hai.

Olog-hai: "You appear to be quite anti-science.

Rubbish!

170 posted on 11/16/2014 7:19:14 PM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective..)
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To: BroJoeK
Funny how hiding behind the Supreme Court (of all bodies) and avoiding the definition of the word science makes one still think one can deny being anti-science. Once the government starts to define for itself (and for all of us) what science is, we are back to the dark days of Galileo—especially if they extend that to control of education.

The Greek word gnosis is not limited to spiritual matters; it is not a word peculiar to them, any more than its Latin cognate scientia is.

The Bible is absolutely not anti-science. It is those who rail against it who are (such as Darwin, who was quite explicit in using his Greek-philosophy-derived ideas, unobserved, as basis for “gradually… disbeliev[ing] in Christianity as a divine revelation”), and nobody who uses it as a basis is ever anti-science.
173 posted on 11/16/2014 7:34:04 PM PST by Olog-hai
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