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- From: cegtitd@prism.gatech.EDU (Tim Dodd)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix
- Message-ID: <74421@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 15:03:00 GMT
- References: <them!| <74353@hydra.gatech.EDU| <BxIx5p.Fxs@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU|
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- In article <BxIx5p.Fxs@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU| sschaff@roc.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Stephen F. Schaffner) writes:
- | Finally, I do think that doing science requires a prior commitment to
- |a world-view in a way that is not wholly unlike that found in religion. But
- |this is at a deep (you might say meaningless) level that does not come up in
- |the daily practice of science, and the latter is, after all, the thing that
- |most scientists are interested in.
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- I agree with you here. However, my only act of faith is to accept the reality
- of the world I have access to through my senses. This is not a very strong
- leap of faith, as it merely constitutes a rejection of solipsism.
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- | My impression is that this thread has just about been done to death
- |by now.
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- No argument here! :-)
-
- Tim
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- Tim Dodd, Research Scientist, Georgia Tech: cegtitd@prism.gatech.edu
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