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Re: We're being attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of culture!
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Date: 
Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:11:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
Science doesn't need to answer question for which it doesn't have enough
evidence to address.  According to the Big Bang Theory, one cannot ask what
caused the Big Bang or where the Big Band came from, because (according to the
theory), all scientific laws break down at the Big Band.  One cannot ask what
came before because the question doesn't make sense.


Therefore science cannot encompass everything.  That stated, something must
exist outside of science.

No one said that science was everything to everyone.  Literature, for example,
is outside the scope of science (for the time being).

Let that something be God.

Ahh.. see if only it were so simple.  Is it a God (all powerful, omnipotent) or
a god (limited supernatural power), or gods.  Or a selfless, ill defined entity.
And if it IS God, is it Islamic God, or Judaic God, Christian God (Catholic God,
Orthodox God, Protestant God), Zoroastrian God, or some other ill defined diety.

Exactly which god are we talking about?  And then, why him and not the other
gods or spirits out there?

You can believe whatever you want to believe, fine.  Just don't pretend it is
science, or that it has the same intellectual certitude that science does.

-Lenny



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  Re: We're being attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of culture!
 
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Leonard Hoffman wrote: <snip> (...) And I would agree with the above--which God and such--all great questions. That said, the main agruement from the 'science camp' is that there can be no God because there is no proof (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: We're being attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of culture!
 
(...) Therefore science cannot encompass everything. That stated, something must exist outside of science. Let that something be God. Dave K (...) My math teacher in high school had that on his wall, along with other math related oddities. I (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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