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Article #31542Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
From: Daniel Packman
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:08
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:08
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In article <HydEd.13546$iC4.974@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>, Harold E. Robbins <herobbins@netscape.net> wrote: >Daniel Packman wrote: >> I have spent some time in religious studies, but this thread >> was about science, not religion or belief. Science tells us nothing >> about God nor intent. It tells us if a given theory matches measurements. >> Nothing more. Nothing less. You are free to use or disregard this >> structure in you own personal religious views. Some people seem to >> see science as some kind of threat to religion. I don't. >So you deny the faith in evolution and "science" is a religion? You >have to accept many different theories as fact before your "science" >works. That is a definition of religion. No problem, you have as much >right to your religion as I do in mine. Science works just fine with or without faith. You don't need to accept any theory as fact. You just need to understand it enough to test it against measurement. And then it either works or it doesn't. You are free to use or ignore this agreement or disagreement in your own religious views. That is entirely separate. -- Daniel Packman NCAR/ACD pack@ucar.edu
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X-Google-Thread: 1073ca,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: fec2a,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: 115ded,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: 111e4f,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Thread: fbb8c,2dcdab444eb22f65 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073ca,gidfec2a,gid115ded,gid111e4f,gidfbb8c,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!news.arizona.edu!noao.edu!ucar!not-for-mail From: pack@eos.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman) Newsgroups: co.general,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.politics.liberalism,co.denver.general,alt.politics.libertarian.gay Subject: Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution: Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:08:58 +0000 (UTC) Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research Lines: 28 Message-ID: <crt9ma$efd$3@news.ucar.edu> References: <Od9zd.1004$qf5.599@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net> <gLABd.4655$F67.4175@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com> <cr6snj$86d$4@news.ucar.edu> <HydEd.13546$iC4.974@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mop2.eos.ucar.edu X-Trace: news.ucar.edu 1105340938 14829 128.117.37.8 (10 Jan 2005 07:08:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.ucar.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:08:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: pack@eos.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman)