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Re: You have got to be kidding me...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:49:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> > I absolutely support a person's right to pretend that the flood created the
> > Grand Canyon, but the government has no business giving its endorsement to a
> > work of religious mythology such as this one.
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> Hm. But the government DOES have business endorsing a book that would support
> the theory that the GC was created by erosion? Why should the government support
> NASA research (say), as opposed to religious research, apart from the actual
> measurable gains that it gets out of scientific research?
Because religious research shouldn't be confused with scientific research and it
shouldn't pretend to be. One is legitimate science that can produce beneficial
results (in medicine, engineering, technology etc) - which represents a gain to
our society. The other is the application of bad science, which hinders the
production of these beneficial results - and represents a loss to our society.
Again no one is preventing creationists from conducting all the research they
want on their own. So far all the theories they have presented are scientific
rubbish - and that doesn't help ones reputation in being able to accomplish
something useful. Why would the government want to waste money funding these
jokers? Would you hire someone to build you a house, if they demonstrated the
lack of proper knowledge to do it? What would be the benefit to society when
their shoddy construction subsequently collapsed?
Spencer
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| (...) Well, that's not the point-- the point isn't that to date, religious science has been a joke, it's that "what if it weren't"? Should the fact that it just happens to be religious preclude a research project from going forward, even if it's (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Hm. But the government DOES have business endorsing a book that would support the theory that the GC was created by erosion? Why should the government support NASA research (say), as opposed to religious research, apart from the actual (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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