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To: beckett
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.

Actually, that is the result of Fundamentalist Christians punishing scientists who tried to believe in God who were also advancing science because their discoveries and theories were 'detrimental' to the fundamentalist doctrine.

Although I am no scientist, I am considered less of a Christian by the fundamentalists who engage in the crevo debates and by those whom I know IRL because I "believe in" evolution (not being ignorant, etc.)

37 posted on 01/15/2002 9:09:43 AM PST by JediGirl
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To: JediGirl
I don't think you are reading Weinberg's words as he intended. He means to say that science has de-mythologized nature, rendering religion (i.e., mystery) redundant.
40 posted on 01/15/2002 9:20:19 AM PST by beckett
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