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To: Uncle George;beckett;Snow Bunny
Yes, is it not amazing how far out in left field science will go to avoid our inability to think any higher than mere mortal man? Humility is the perfect word, yes.

It seems to me that the humble ones would be the ones still looking for answers -- the scientists.

28 posted on 01/15/2002 7:58:26 AM PST by Moonman62
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To: Moonman62
It seems to me that the humble ones would be the ones still looking for answers -- the scientists.

Are you a hardcore materialist, moonman? In the past, that has not been my impression of you. Indeed, scientific inquiry is an ennobling and, usually, humbling enterprise. It deserves high praise. But another strain of thought has recently come to the fore, one which assumes knowledge of final truths. Perhaps it is best expressed by Nobel prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg, who wrote that he is all in favor of "a dialogue between science and religion, but not a constructive dialogue. One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment." I interpret Weinberg's use of the term "religion" as synonomous with "respect for mystery."

Hardcore materialists, as I define them, believe that "intelligent" people have solved the problem of existence, and that there are no unknown unknowns. To me, such thinking is foolishness beyond reckoning.

34 posted on 01/15/2002 8:38:19 AM PST by beckett
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