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From: minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky)
Newsgroups: alt.atheism,alt.drugs,alt.pagan,sci.bio,sci.med,sci.skeptic,talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: more on what religious states are for
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Date: 24 Feb 91 22:21:53 GMT
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Reply-To: minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
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In article <9102211738.aa19500@ICS.UCI.EDU> honig@ICS.UCI.EDU (David Honig) writes:
> It is precisely because of that dichotomy that several
>nobel prize winning physicists have stated that they see no conflict between
>their perception of scientific reality and their religious beliefs.  The
>two areas do not conflict, they purport to answer different questions.
>
>In summary, be careful not to confuse science with teleology!  Science does
>not address purpose in nature.

Be careful not to confuse reason with rhetoric.  The fact that some
nobel prize winners 'see' no conflict doesn't mean that there isn't
any. Maybe they might have accomplished even more.


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