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- From: sakata@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Henry Sakata)
- Subject: Re: Prove That Kids are Precious Gifts From God. (Was: Re: ra-ising c-hildren)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.232007.1477@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:20:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.063614.15595@netcom.com> rohwerwd@netcom.com (W. David Rohwer) writes:
- [original post and pre-followups omitted]
- >
- > I am not saying that there is or is not a God, or gifts from God.
- >
-
- Dear Mr. Rohwer:
-
- You must have taken a specific stance on the issue to have brought
- upon Lubosh and others the burden of proof by scientific evidence.
- Why must science be the law that determines the existence of God?
- Surely these are two different studies, where one is based on fact
- and the other is based on faith.
-
- Science, however, is not totally factual. Science nurtures upon
- theoretical discoveries that are accepted as truths only through
- repeated experimentation and observation. No one has actually seen
- the intricate bonding of two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom to
- form a water molecule, but we see the results and accept the theory
- as fact, and no one questions why hydrogen doesn't always bond with
- oxygen to form water. Nor has anyone seen or recorded the
- beginning of the universe, yet science speculates on its origins.
-
- While the birthing of children can be explained by modern science
- and medicine, the beauty and the wonder of the event in itself is
- a miracle. And if people wish to attribute the existence of such
- beauty in life to God, then so let it be, for there is none more
- deserving.
-
- Sincerely,
- Henry Sakata
- sakata@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
-