Re: Theology

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From: Geoff Lock
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:25

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On 23/06/2011 4:36 AM, DonH wrote:
> "Geoff Lock"<glock@home>  wrote in message
> news:4e016df2$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
>> On 21/06/2011 4:32 AM, DonH wrote:
>>> Is theology a science?
>>
>> I thought science meant that results can be replicated.
>>
>>>     Or, only in the broad sense of a systematic study, a discourse; not in
>>> the
>>> empirical, secular, sense, of going by observed facts?
>>
>> Sounds like it.
>>
>>>     Can it match, eg., climatology, or meteorology?
>>
>> Don't think so
>>
>>>     Theology, "the study of God", has God's existence as axiomatic?
>>
>> I dunno
>
> # Those who postulate a God Hypothesis have a duty to provide some empirical
> proof.
>

Don't be silly :) Any attempts to provide evidence of divinity will 
destroy the fantasy :)

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