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Re: Science and Religion
Read, Dwight ANTHRO (Read@ANTHRO.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU)
Wed, 11 Oct 1995 15:59:00 PDT
Ottenheimer replies:
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>... if it could be demonstrated that no "natural rules" succeeed in
providing an
> adequate accounting for the nature of the observable and observed world,...
How could it be demonstrated?"
Suppose every time we tested a theory based upon "natural rules" we always
found disconfirming data....?
Ottenheimer continues:
" My way of putting it would be that
science as endeavor stresses the questioning, testing, and revising
of assertions while religion as endeavor stresses the acceptance of
assertions."
I quite agree and it nicely puts the emphasis on the intent of science
versus the intent of religion which is where the fundamental difference lies.
D. Read
READ@ANTHRO.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU
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