Re: Religion bashing? continued...

From: Clint O'Dell (clintodell@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 26 1999 - 13:49:29 MDT


> > [Micah Redding noted] that the apostle Paul had a quite
> > different attitude than what is called "faith" on this list. he
> > encouraged people to "test all things..."
>
>Which to me, is evidence that Paul did not write Hebrews,
>which in chapter 11 verse 1 says "Faith is the substance of things
>hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
>
>Religion and science can play together if they follow these rules:
>
>Religion is to speculate *only* on that which in principal
>*cannot* be tested directly or indirectly.
>
>Science is to speculate *only* on those things which
>*can* be tested experimentally, even theoretically.
>
>Each must stay in its own sandbox. Stephen Jay Gould
>wrote a good book about this, called Rocks of Ages. spike

Replace Religion with philosophy and there is no problem, but religion
should never be allowed to play with science.

-Clint

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