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- From: ricko@ee.uts.edu.au (Rick Jelliffe)
- Newsgroups: aus.religion
- Subject: Re: God and Science: Are they incompatible?
- Date: 17 Nov 92 07:34:27 GMT
- Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
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- pope@physics.su.OZ.AU (The Nightstalker) writes:
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- >The following article appeared in The Physics Society of Sydneys
- >journal "Jeremy", this year.
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- >God and Science: are they incompatible?
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- >... two points to make. One is that a view held by the church may not always
- >reflect the God which it represents, for does the Bible say that the earth is
- >flat or that it is at the centre of the universe. Even the poorest scholar
- >can see that it does not, yet these are views that the church has held in
- >the past and persecuted physicists for rightly showing these views to be wrong.
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- The Galileo affair was not about the if the earth was flat. This is a general
- myth that is also held about Columbus (i.e. that he proved them wrong).
- Which scientists are being talked of?
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- >Then there is the case more to do with genetics and so on, where the moral
- >issues become greater. Does the scientist have the right to make decisions
- >over the genetic makeup of the human species, or is that purely the ground of
- >a God that created?
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- The central question I have heard is that human genetic engineering involves
- experiments on humans, something worthy Nazis. In order to perfect
- the techniques, humans would be killed or mained. The question of a right
- to tamper with genes comes after whether its right to kill babies in
- grizly experiments. And if an experiment produces a dud, is it right to
- kill the freak? I think anyone civilized would say no to such an enterprise.
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- -ricko
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