[FoRK] Faith and/or Science - Newton et al

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Hi Tom,

On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Tom Higgins wrote:
> * How an science be taught in a culture that fights to insert religion
> into every aspect of teaching?
>   * Can the science be taught by the  true believers in a real and
> meaningfully scientific way?

Don't ask me, ask Isaac Newton:

http://www.adherents.com/people/pn/Isaac_Newton.html

Oh wait, he obviously doesn't count as a "real" scientist by the usual  
standards of FoRk, so obviously he has nothing to teach you...

Sure, there's much to deplore about religious societies, but the idea  
that religion is *necessarily* inimical to science seems an  
unsubstantiated myth.  Heck, one could as well make a case for science  
itself being inimical to science, since here on FoRK a single anecdote  
is considered ironclad evidence of a trend...:

http://www.iasf.org/subraman.htm

-- Ernie P.