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- From: dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green)
- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.172655.27714@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:26:55 GMT
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- In article <1eg3hpINNf21@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- ->In article <1992Nov19.033314.13041@muddcs.claremont.edu>, dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green) writes:
- ->=In article <1eefs2INN59v@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- ->=->In article <1992Nov18.203953.4479@muddcs.claremont.edu>, dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green) writes:
- ->=>=->"I don't know" is now a belief?
- ->=>=
- ->=>=To answer a question with a question: How would an agnostic respond if I
- ->=>=were to ask, "What do you believe about God?"
- ->=>
- ->=>An agnostic would respond along the lines of "The question is ill-formed. I
- ->=>don't know whether or not god exists, so how can I possibly believe anything
- ->=>about it?"
- ->=
- ->=*cough* What it looks like to me is that the person _believes_ that s/he
- ->=cannot know whether God exists. Unless you can point out to me how this
- ->=differs significantly from what you just said?
- ->
- ->I'll be glad to answer your question if you'll tell me what you think of the
- ->color of the shirt I'm wearing.
-
- Nice shade, though a bit on the loud side for my tastes.
-
- ->NOW do you see the distinction?
-
- Mishael throws up his hands in a surrender gesture. "I suppose I use the term
- `religion' for lack of a better term to use in that case. In my mind, still,
- agnosticism is a belief _about_ God, `about' in this sense meaning `involving,'
- or `concerning.' But since that seems to be quite a bit off the wavelength
- of the majority of people in here, I'll refrain from referring to agnosticism
- as a religion henceforth."
- --
- dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu David "Mishael" Green
- Have you scritched your local Furry today?
- ************************Who ordered the muon? -- I. I. Rabi*********************
- I have not been appointed Judge, Jury, or Executioner by God. Just witness.
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