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To: Fester Chugabrew

Nothing you say is remotelely relevant to my post. What I said was:

Science makes inferences from things that can be observed and checked by others. It is interesting that scientists from all over the world agree on the main paradigms of the various sciences, while people of varying religions are killing each other over the interpretation of texts.

It is interesting that most scientific disputes are settled in a few years or a few decades, while people of various religions are re fighting 1700 year old heresies.

There are distinct difference in the subject matter and methodologies of religion and science. Science only studies those questions that can be resolved by empirical methods.


281 posted on 04/13/2006 7:20:24 PM PDT by js1138 (~()):~)>)
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To: js1138
It is interesting that scientists from all over the world agree on the main paradigms of the various sciences . . .

It is interesting that Christians and non-Christians from all over the world agree on the main paradigms concerning the presence and activity of an Almighty Creator, and have agreed on these things for "slightly" longer than 200 years.

The differences between religion and science may be considered intellectually, but practically the two simply cannot be separated. The suggestion that science is somehow more unanimous and precise in its derivations than the combined experience and observation of mankind in general is hopeful, to be sure, but not necessarily, or empirically, certain.

283 posted on 04/13/2006 7:33:46 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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