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- From: hyder@cs.utexas.edu (Syed Irfan Hyder)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.bangladesh
- Subject: Re: The Quran and the Modern Science
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 16:10:00 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- References: <1993Jan1.042126.20446@news.eng.convex.com> <1i2freINNjja@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <1i2i4kINNid9@aludra.usc.edu>
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- In article <1i2i4kINNid9@aludra.usc.edu> sramacha@aludra.usc.edu (Sudarshan Ramachandran) writes:
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- : What science 'claims' is that anything that can be "observed" can
- : be explained rationally without recourse to "miracles" or/of "god".
- : When some phenomenon cannot be explained rationally, it only means that
- : the "observation" is faulty. That is why "rAhu or kEtu eating up
- : the moon" is superstition while a "lunar eclipse" is not.
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- What you mean by "observe"?
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- Do you know that scientist do not even agree on what is
- meant to "observe"?
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- Each observation requires a certain set of axioms and postulates.
- These axioms are accepted without proof, and without any observation.
- Hence, according to your definition axioms and postulates are
- supersititions. As such, sceince is the most methodically supersitious
- of all sources of knowledge!!!!!
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