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To: SoftwareEngineer; Kevmo
"“Believe in Science” is a phrase. At the end of the day, the reason it is NOT a religion is that it has no fixed precepts."

Oh, it does too. It has one fixed precept. Philosophical naturalism is assumed 'a priori'. Absolutely every 'scientific' theory that follows is based on that one assumption.

Religion is simply a broad term for the philosophy that assumes that the supernatural is real and includes the natural. Science is simply the broad term for the philosophy that assumes that the natural is all that exists.

"It “evolves” (to use a phrase) based on our knowledge."

Reminds me of good old-fashioned Gnosticism applied to the philosophy of naturalism.

59 posted on 12/26/2010 9:14:40 AM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan

To the greatest extent I’ve ever been able to determine, God works entirely within the laws of physics, assuming that you include plasma physics in the term “physics”. If you want miracles and gross violations of mathematical and probabilistic laws you need to be talking to the evolutionites, they specialize in that sort of thing.


60 posted on 12/26/2010 11:10:19 AM PST by wendy1946
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To: GourmetDan; SoftwareEngineer

Reminds me of good old-fashioned Gnosticism applied to the philosophy of naturalism.
***That’s what it reminded me of as well, but you said it more eloquently than I would have.

So, basically what we have here is someone suggesting that we set up what is already set up, but it turns out he doesn’t like what he asked for.


70 posted on 12/26/2010 5:17:10 PM PST by Kevmo (Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn't make any sense at all. ~Ronald Reagan)
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