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To: blowfish
Can you actually say this with a straight face?

Sure. Meanwhile, to what extent have you researched the degree of coherence within religious and scientific disciplines? Enough to objectively conclude that science is more coherent than religion? Methinks you are speaking from the gut and not from a body of evidence. IMO, neither religion nor science is particularly coherent. Both may be as diverse as the number of humans on this planet.

But what is it that guides human thought into coherence? It cannot come from inside each human, but must come from the outside. Science does not have a biblical text, so it does not have a document upon which to rely as a guide or norm. The Old Testament has probably brought about more coherence in human thought than any other entity. But then, one needs to define coherence before he can measure it. I think the meaning here is "general agreement."

Regardless, it is not the amount of coherence that validates a theory in the first place. You may be the only person in the world who has a perfectly objective grasp on reality. Science will never know.

642 posted on 02/01/2006 1:58:17 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Enough to objectively conclude that science is more coherent than religion?

For describing details of the physical world, the bible is useless. For describing people's morality, physics is useless. I would not use my physics textbook to tell me how to behave, and I wouldn't use my bible to tell me about ressesive genes and stratigraphic sequences. Each book has it's place.
It's fine to praise the bible, but it has it's limits of usefulness.

790 posted on 02/02/2006 8:44:35 AM PST by blowfish
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