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To: Borges

Science is the exploring of the natural world. Religion is all supernatural. Thus, disrupting scientific progress by injecting religious philosophy is a recepie for disaster.


81 posted on 10/28/2005 5:02:04 PM PDT by sagar
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To: sagar

Actually, the characteristic of science is that it deals with testable and retestable knowledge, not its naturalism.

I have already pointed to the naturalistic, but patently non-scientific cosmology of Lee Smolin, which shows the non-congruence between science and naturalism in one way.

One can see it in another way also: many early scientists did experiments in what is today called 'the occult'. They gave no reproducible results--or rather gave the oft reproduced result that the ceremonial manipulations did nothing--but the attempt shows that the supernatural is not outside the domain of scientific investigation.


93 posted on 10/28/2005 5:51:34 PM PDT by The_Reader_David
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