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To: drlevy88

Yawn, all this is saying is that science-as-we-know-it can't grok the concept.

Hello, drlevy88. The last time we chatted you warned me I was heading into an abyss. Thanks again for the warning.

What does this 'grok' term mean? I know I've seen it before. I don't think it was in an officially sanction text.

287 posted on 09/08/2005 7:20:25 PM PDT by ml1954
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To: ml1954
What does this 'grok' term mean?

"Know" or "understand." R.A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land.

288 posted on 09/08/2005 7:23:12 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: ml1954

To understand in a deep, fundamental way. In order to do that, science would need to embrace axioms that are outside-of-natural (extranatural, supernatural) in character. This is about things that have a will and can impose that will upon the natural, rather than resulting from some chain of natural events. Since its self defined mission is the natural, science can not possibly get a grip on the supernatural.


362 posted on 09/08/2005 10:59:53 PM PDT by drlevy88
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