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From: was@pbhye.UUCP (Joe Wasik)
Newsgroups: sci.research
Subject: FAITH VS FACT
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Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 16:06:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  8 16:06:07 1987
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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.