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To: CobaltBlue

Mere "mention" of God within a particular scientific discipline is not the issue, nor are my feelings. Establishment of the principle that God, by law, must be elimnated from the purview of science, is the issue, along with the fact that science is not qualified to make such an exclusion for itself in the first place.


223 posted on 01/19/2006 3:48:53 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Well, if you believe in God, you know that God is everywhere, so we don't have to talk about Him all the time.

Thus, there's no reason to mention God in typing class, or sewing class or auto repair class, or biology class. God's there, but not particularly relevant to the subject at hand.

It's like prayer. You don't have to pray out loud, you can pray silently and to yourself. Nobody has to know but you and God.


226 posted on 01/19/2006 3:52:15 PM PST by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew
"Establishment of the principle that God, by law, must be elimnated from the purview of science, is the issue,"

No, it is not the Law that excludes God from scientific examination, it is the nature of science that does.

" is the issue, along with the fact that science is not qualified to make such an exclusion for itself in the first place."

Sure it is. You, on the other hand, have provided absolutely NO WAY for science to include God, yet you want science to do so anyway.
227 posted on 01/19/2006 3:52:57 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: Fester Chugabrew
...along with the fact that science is not qualified to make such an exclusion for itself in the first place.

Bull. Science is aware of its limitations. It can assume the existence of God for the sake of argument and conclude based on the characteristics of God which you believe him to have. You say that he exists and that he has certain traits. Science says that if that is true, those traits cannot be examined by science, based on the limitations of science. Since science knows its limitations, it is eminently qualified to make that exclusion (although "making that exclusion" is imprecise. Science is "recognizing its limitations").

303 posted on 01/20/2006 5:15:11 AM PST by WildHorseCrash
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