Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ll-xn!ames!ptsfa!pbhye!was From: was@pbhye.UUCP (Joe Wasik) Newsgroups: sci.research Subject: FAITH VS FACT Message-ID: <1787@pbhye.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 16:06:07 EDT Article-I.D.: pbhye.1787 Posted: Wed Jul 8 16:06:07 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 17:08:27 EDT Distribution: na Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA Lines: 23 After years of seeing their religious beliefs degraded to mere supernatural anomalies, the religious right came upon an idea: if we cannot have our beliefs accepted as fact, then perhaps the definition of fact (i.e. scientific evidence) needs to be altered. Consider, evolution is rejected in favor of creationism by denying the validity of carbon dating, fossil evidence, genetic tracing in favor of explanations such as the Great Flood. School prayer is promoted by relabeling traditional science as the religion of secular humanism. These semi-organized attempts to promote one particular religious belief are so ubiquitous, that even a newsgroup such as this falls prey. There are two different spheres of reality and neither side has the slightest chance of even influencing the other. The battle of fact versus faith only wastes time. Those who see science as reality have no scheme in place to prevent science from being polluted or even to launch a decent counter-attack. The only viable alternative is to deny the religious right its credibility. To do that is easy, simply ignore those postings in this newsgroup that are so obviously matters of faith.