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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Re: Science & Religion: sleight of hand
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Date: Mon, 19-Nov-84 17:08:56 EST
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> > 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

There is a subtle shift here.  The scientific method may not apply
to *your* birth.  Does it follow that we know nothing about birth?
No:  while your birth may not be repeatable, birth certainly is.
Ditto life.  Ditto death.
-- 
Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois