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From: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Science as Religion
Message-ID: <2172@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 15:33:07 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 19 15:33:07 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Jul-85 08:26:31 EDT
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Reply-To: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak)
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Summary: 

In article <3158@decwrl.UUCP> arndt@lymph.DEC writes:
>
>The premise... is that 'science' as
>we know it rose only under the Christian world-view.  A statement Whitehead,
>Oppenheimer and others have made as well.

I should know better than to try to argue with Aren't, and i do.  I'll just
state my disagreement and point to the source, so he can look it up himself.

Whitehead, in his book titled (i believe) "Science and Reality," does not
maintain that
	 "science... rose... UNDER the Christian world-view,"
but rather that
	  science rose AGAINST the Christian world-view.

Whitehead's contention is that 'science' was a reaction against the 
'rationalism' of Aristotle, Aquinas, Decartes, etc.

This argument is illustrated in the 'classic' story of the rationalist
Christians arguing endlessly about how many teeth a horse has, each
interpreting the Bible as the sole way of learning the answer.

	Al  Algustyniak

p.s.  It looks like i have to leave the net in a couple of weeks.  Thanks,
	everyone, for the fascinating experience.