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- From: johno@sdd.hp.com (John Ongtooguk)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 01:26:50 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov4.182157.17016@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1d9tejINNq6p@chnews.intel.com> <1dbo90INNt4k@hpsdlss3.sdd.hp.com> <1992Nov06.003459.120859@zeus.calpoly.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov06.003459.120859@zeus.calpoly.edu>, mhorning@zeus.calpoly.edu (Mark E. Horning (Captain Neutrino)) writes:
- |> johno@sdd.hp.com (John Ongtooguk) states
- |> >In article <1d9tejINNq6p@chnews.intel.com>, bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
- |> >|>
- |> >|> Science is truth, and truth is science. They are one and the same.
- |> >
- |> > If the truth is always changing then what is it after it changes ?
- |>
- |> No, no. You have to treat science as an approximation. As information
- |> goes towards infinity, science goes towards reality. Therefore when it
- |> changes it more closely approximates the truth.
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- I'll agree with that. Science is more of a falsifier than deliverer of
- truth and after enough "is, is not" the truth may become evident, or at
- least accepted as such.
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- John Ongtooguk (johno@sdd.hp.com)
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