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

[Tom Higgins]

On Nov 28, 2007 1:09 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
<drernie at radicalcentrism.org> wrote:
>
> 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...

I will let this one go to the wayside, the set up was not so well
timed and the punchline needing a bit of work...ingtiiddleipo.

>
> Sure, there's much to deplore about religious societies, but the idea
> that religion is *necessarily* inimical to science seems an
> unsubstantiated myth.



"necessarily" comes as the point here as by Action and Deed the
relgious folks here in the US seem to think it is necessary to dumb
down one to prop up the other.

Not acceptable under any set of quotations or flowery affirmations to
the greater goodness of religions goodness.

Also while it may not seem "necessary" to you it has seemed very
necessary to many religious authorities to take science to task for
seeking and finding many things over the years and in the present.
Stem cell research, birth control, the idea that women are equal to
men....all still being battled against by various religious
authorities.


Like i said, I fell your pain in some ways about the conflicts this
brings in side and within, but the without and outside applications of
these things are hard to hide from.

Or lets put it more simply....is any one person belief system worth
the life of any other person?

-tomhiggins