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In article <BxIx5p.Fxs@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU| sschaff@roc.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Stephen F. Schaffner) writes:
|	Finally, I do think that doing science requires a prior commitment to 
|a world-view in a way that is not wholly unlike that found in religion.  But 
|this is at a deep (you might say meaningless) level that does not come up in 
|the daily practice of science, and the latter is, after all, the thing that 
|most scientists are interested in.

I agree with you here.  However, my only act of faith is to accept the reality
of the world I have access to through my senses.  This is not a very strong
leap of faith, as it merely constitutes a rejection of solipsism.

|	My impression is that this thread has just about been done to death 
|by now.

No argument here!  :-)

Tim
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Tim Dodd, Research Scientist, Georgia Tech:  cegtitd@prism.gatech.edu