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Science and Religionherdrich david j (herdrich@UXA.CSO.UIUC.EDU)Mon, 31 Oct 1994 07:33:58 -0600
It seems to me that falsification is not the difference between science and religion. After all, people do lose their faith, so in some sense falsification is in principle possible for religious people. Nonetheless, I do think there is a difference, but I have only been able to come up with one. The difference between science and religion is that religion *assumes* that there is a _moral structure_ to the universe, science does not. At best, science will step aside for moral principles, in worst cases, like Rushton et al., it will not. In other words, some individuals will put aside their scientific pursuits due to their moral principles which have their origins outside of science in some form of religious system. So we won't kill people in our experiments not because the experiment is not scientific, but because we subscribe to some moral (religious, be it organized or not) belief system. David J. Herdrich
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