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From: ethan@utastro.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Creationism is not science.
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Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 11:56:42 EDT
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Well .. actually scientists are not very religious in any conventional 
way, significantly less so than the surrounding society.  I think that
the reason for that is related to the reason why creationism does not
strike most scientists as a "perfectly acceptable" if unscientific
belief.  The pursuit of science involves a preference for verifiable
hypotheses.  Solipsism is perfectly acceptable from a philosophic
point of view, but anyone who takes it seriously is not likely to be
a good scientist.
     I suspect, but can't prove, that most scientists are agnostics
(*not* atheists) because they are temperamentally uninterested in having
faith.

                         Ethan Vishniac