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To: A. Pole

"Science by itself amoral - it can find ways to cure diseases and the way to poison people."


Organized religion (not 'God', per se) is also amoral. It has found ways to provide aid to people in need and has found ways (and reasons) to kill those which it deems to be witches/unbelievers/infidels,etc.


24 posted on 01/04/2006 1:33:46 PM PST by Blzbba (Sub sole nihil novi est)
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To: Blzbba

"Organized religion (not 'God', per se) is also amoral. It has found ways to provide aid to people in need and has found ways (and reasons) to kill those which it deems to be witches/unbelievers/infidels,etc."

Ahh, but when said organized religion killed those witches, unbelievers, infidels, etc, it was done in the name of God (and thus though to be the moral thing to do). This is not amoral but rather immoral.

Science, on the other hand, is truly amoral because morality is irrelevant to it (though not irrelevant to its practitioners).


35 posted on 01/04/2006 1:59:58 PM PST by Celebur
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