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Re: Science and religion - who needs either?
Steve Mizrach (SEEKER1@NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU)
Fri, 21 Oct 1994 02:05:59 +0000
>I challenge anyone to name a
>(surviving) religion that emphasises finding new religious truths through
>exploration of other religions.
Ummm... Jainism?
People have been dropping things since we
>first had people, and as far as I know, none of those things has fallen up.
>I can put my faith in that.
Hmmm, there are reports of things (including people) falling up - in
religious literature this is often called "levitation" or "ascension,"
although there have been cases in modern times.
Of course, scientists say this can't happen. It's not that there are no
reports of things falling up. It's that scientists don't accept the reports
of things falling up, because things falling up can't happen.
Why can't falling up happen? Because scientists say nobody has ever seen
anything falling up. Reductio ad absurdum.
The only thing I put my faith in is that scientists are occasionally wrong.
To quote one of my favorite authors, Charles Fort, "I close the front door
on Christ and Einstein, and open the back door to frogs and periwinkles."
> Leo T. Walsh (ai653@ksu.ksu.edu)
Yours,
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