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To: betty boop
I am amazed that such a light-weight piece as Dawkin's has "inspired" a thread of this length....

Not me. The first sentence drew me in: "Science feeds on mystery." To the extent Dawkins is willing to posit this, I am willing to grant him a say in science.

1,431 posted on 05/27/2005 9:28:40 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew; Alamo-Girl
"Science feeds on mystery."

Forgive me, Chester, but IMO science is not about mystery. It is about explaining the physical world. "Mystery" is the bailiwick of religion.

This statement from Dawkins is the sort of rhetorical tactic I most object to. He is making an emotional appeal here for his own particular brand of religion, atheistic scienfic materialism. And there's nothing "mysterious" about that.

Wake up and smell the roses....

FWIW. Thanks for writing!

1,517 posted on 05/28/2005 9:06:07 AM PDT by betty boop (God alone is Guarantor of an intelligible Universe.)
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