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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Science & Religion
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Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 18:24:31 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 18:24:31 1984
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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