--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think we as humans like to look for patterns and extrapolate our > > intelligence onto nature. > > Agreed. > > Whether we do it through a belief in God > > or in science, the motive is the same, and either belief remains > > full of holes when viewed superficially. > > Here I disagree. Science is not a belief like the belief in God. It > is a method used to help improve the odds of our beliefs being > accurate. The method is a work around for our cognitive flaws. So I > see the motives in holding a God belief and using the methods of > science to be almost opposite.
>From my point of view, both are active methods of inquiry, and both have the same ability to become stagnant and fundamentalist. One of the greatest limitations of science is that only physical phenomena can be studied and proven, and even then it is only physical phenomenon for which we have instruments to measure. Leaves a lot out. One of the greatest limitations in a belief in God is using such a belief to explain everything. Lately I have found the use of the term God both imprecise and primitive. > > And most God believers get scientific real fast in the hospital > emergency room. The God belief is the last resort after every avenue > of science is pursued. (or until your health insurance cuts you off) > <snip> On the oither hand, an interesting story my wife told me recently about a scuba certification class she took awhile back: The instructor was asking a student what he would do in an emergency, and the student was naming all the correct stuff to do, and the instructor kept asking, Yes, and what else? what else? The student was eventually stumped, and the instructor added, "pray".
