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- From: ande@sierra.com (Ande Rychter)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Religion and Science don't mix
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.003400.25120@sierra.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 00:34:00 GMT
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- In 26505 Kim Gunnar St|vring \yhus writes:
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- > As for science disproving existence of God: This can be done by showing
- > that the description of God is inconsistent, or by falsifying.
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- In 26529 E. Mark Ping writes:
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- > Science can *never* disprove the existance of a God.
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- I always thought that the exercise of disproving the existence of God is
- akin to the exercise of disproving the existence of a 25-legged monster
- which lives on the dark side of the moon, eats rocks, is semi-transparent
- (slightly greenish), and whose metabolism is based on the decay of
- the proton. -AR
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