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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Science & Religion
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Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 11:14:23 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 11 11:14:23 1984
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[Yuk!  Why would you want to eat that?]

> Science and religion are NOT in any way opposed to each other!  The
> scientific method can and should be applied to all religious activities,

That would abuse the scientific method.  The scientific method applies
only to _repeatable_ phenomena, not to things like your birth, life, and
death.  Most unmechanized cultures have _no_ use for the scientific
method of experimentation and analysis, because in unmechanized cultures
virtually nothing is precisely repeatable.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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