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- From: johan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Johan Wevers)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix
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- Date: 5 Nov 92 10:05:34 GMT
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- collins@eol.ists.ca (Mike Collins) writes:
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- >I agree, science and religion are fundamentally different. The kernal
- >of science is scepticism, everything is open to scrutiny, even the
- >process of science itself.
-
- and:
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- > but the must be a way to mutate science into an
- >equally extensible spirituality. one that is based on equality
- >and respect, and above all a profound reverence for the natural
- >world.
-
- No, there isn't a way to mutate science in such a way AND keep
- consistent with the scepticism. Equality and respect seem to be
- concepts which you consider as desirable, but you can't say a priori
- that they are.
-
- The only way to use science for this is to recognize that evolution
- results in a relative favour of better functioning societies. Because
- each species is aimed on survival of the species (if a specie wasn't,
- it would die out automatically).
-
- Maybe equality and respect are things which give a civillisation a
- favour about others. Some care of the environment certainly does.
- But research has to be done to find this out.
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