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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Science & Religion
Message-ID: <20980005@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 21:06:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 27 21:06:00 1984
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> > Science and religion are NOT in any way opposed to each other!  The
> > scientific method can and should be applied to all religious activities,
> 
> That would abuse the scientific method.  The scientific method applies
> only to _repeatable_ phenomena, not to things like your birth, life, and
> death.  Most unmechanized cultures have _no_ use for the scientific
> method of experimentation and analysis, because in unmechanized cultures
> virtually nothing is precisely repeatable.

What does lack of mechanization have to do with it?

And why do you assume that religion must deal only with unrepeatable
phenomena?  It should be a way to discover how humans are constituted and
how they work optimally.  It should open minds, not close them by providing
"orders from above" concerning what to believe.

If a religion's benefits are not reproducible, that religion is a fraud.
You can only waste your time through membership.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
ARPA:	Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K
uucp:	seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim (supposedly)

"Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are
but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains."
Liber AL, II:9.