Hi Marlon While agreeing with you, one key difference between scientific theorising and religion is that all science is open to falsification. Religious belief by its nature is not, as it is based on faith and not amenable to empirical testing. By way of interest, my students generally had no trouble debating whether there was empirical evidence for the existence of God etc except for some Muslim students for whom such a debate was apostasy. For them, truth on this issue was not to be examined and discovered. It was already there in the Koran! Some modern day Christians are no different--it's all in the Bible!
Science can never be a religion nor does it aspire towards such an end. Cornel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlon Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 6:45 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Science as a religion > For once, Gilbert is making some sense. It is obvious > that scientists as individuals will make errors based > on their incorrect interpretation of the facts or > simply because of the lack of a complete set of data. _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
