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To: Tribune7

Why are you obsessed with disproof of God? I have never understood this. It's insane.

There are some vocal athiests among scientists. There are athiests in all professions, probably even among clergymen.

But science seeks to find out how things work. The worst it can do to religion is demonstrate that things don't work the way some religious people claim they work. At most it can demonstrate that the community of believers, like any community of people, contains some people with wrong beliefs.


112 posted on 07/14/2006 4:44:17 AM PDT by js1138 (Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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To: js1138
Well, I have never understood the hostility ID engenders. If it is wrong it will be shown, if it is impractical it will be ignored.

What is being demanded by the academia, however, is unquestioning allegience to a belief that many very smart people don't hold and what I think is driving this is not a love of science but an wish to eliminate the only challenger to utilitarian values, and, of course, said utility and values would be determined by the academy.

116 posted on 07/14/2006 5:08:30 AM PDT by Tribune7
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