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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
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Subject: Re: slander
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Date: Mon, 27-May-85 10:40:27 EDT
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> 
>   I AM NOT criticizing Hinduism! I am criticizing the statement that
>   Evolution has no beginning. If special beginning implies religion
>   (Genesis), than no beginning equally implies religion (Hinduism).
> 
>   AGAIN, I AM NOT criticizing Hinduism, I am criticizing a so-called
>   scientific theory for being amazingly similar to religion. Which
>   is exactly what evolutionists do about creationism.

A preconceived belief that the Universe had a beginning could well be
classified as religious.  A preconceived belief that the Universe had
no beginning could equally well be classified as religious.

On the other hand, if one holds to either view tentatively, as a working
hypothesis, and is willing to let *the observations* decide the issue,
that is science, not religion.  Is that too complicated a distinction
to understand?

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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