Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Science & Religion Message-ID: <1418@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 18:24:31 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1418 Posted: Wed Nov 28 18:24:31 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 02:37:32 EST References: <20980005@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> Reply-To: mangoe@maryland.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Distribution: na Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 14 In article <20980005@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes: >If a religion's benefits are not reproducible, that religion is a fraud. >You can only waste your time through membership. I suppose this means that Judaism is a fraud, because God chose to part the Sea of Reeds only once. It seems rather presumptious to me to claim that God has to produce miracles on demand-- which is all Tim's statement amounts to. Since God is omnipotent, there is no reason to expect him to be bound to some sort of rule which can be modelled scientifically. I expect God to do lots of unreproducible things, unreproducible in the sense that we can't set up the proper situation and expect the miracle to be repeated. Charley Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe