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To: GodGunsGuts

Michael Faraday quote...after several posts of asking and you failing to provide a single one....I provide my own.

In a letter ( 1844) to Lady Lovelace, he (Faraday) noted, “In my intercourse with my fellow creatures that which is religious and that which is philosophical have ever been distinct things.”

This is the opposite of a Creation Scientist philosophy that supposes that Scientific finding must always be bent to their understanding of the “Biblical” six thousand year old universe, worldwide flood, etc.

http://www.adherents.com/people/pf/Michael_Faraday.html


1,101 posted on 08/25/2008 6:10:41 PM PDT by allmendream (If "the New Yorker" makes a joke, and liberals don't get it, is it still funny?)
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To: allmendream

LOL. Let’s not let Faraday’s actual words get in the way GGG’s fantasies.

But suppose Faraday was a Biblical literalist. Isn’t it interesting that he didn’t distort his scientific findings?

It’s really a credit to honesty of the early eighteenth century Brits that they so desperately wanted science to prove the literal word of the Bible, but were willing to put this aside when it didn’t work out. I guess they had the example of Galileo and Newton to follow.


1,104 posted on 08/25/2008 6:40:15 PM PDT by js1138
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