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From: torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek )
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Scientific advance
Message-ID: <249@umich.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 14:29:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 14:29:38 1985
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References: <2250346@hpfcms.UUCP> <27500124@ISM780B.UUCP>
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Organization: University of Michigan, EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
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Keywords: Re: RE:  Weird Science (response)

In article <27500124@ISM780B.UUCP> jim@ISM780B.UUCP writes:
>...  Scientific discovery and advance is nearly
>monotonic; no such claim can be made for any religion.

I'm the first to defend the rationality of science, but this claim is
overly grandiose.  Science doesn't advance monotonically; T.S. Kuhn
showed otherwise.  

--Paul V Torek					torek@umich