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- From: lnh@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (sometimes a Wombat)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.153142.17712@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 15:31:42 GMT
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- Those who claim that 'truth' and 'reality' are synonyms are ignoring
- the existance of emotional truths, which have no objective existance
- (are not part of "reality") outside of the people who experience them.
- This comes up not just as part of religion, but as the basis of
- literature and much of the rest of the arts.
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- The predictions about the nature of *physical* reality of a religion
- are falsifiable. Other aspects of a religion are not. They are in the
- realm of subjectivity.
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- Debating the obvious is a bit silly.
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- Larry "Slightly interescting sets" Hammer
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- LNH@physics.arizona.edu \ Worships language and forgives
- GEnie: L.HAMMER2 \ Everyone by whom it lives -- Auden
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