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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Proof of Outlandish Propositions
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 03:06:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 03:06:08 1985
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> [Martillo] 
> My claim is that modern science rests on certain beliefs for which
> there is no logical basis and which must be taken on faith.
> [A list of assumptions upon which he says science depends]
> Without these assumptions, there is no modern science.  Modern science
> works well, but that does not prove these assumptions but rather shows
> they are good axioms.  I am perfectly reasonable  to take the efficacy
> of these axioms as possible evidence  for the existence  of a divinity
> stabilizing the universe in some sense.
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Yes, science depends on assumptions.  But assumptions are not the
same thing as faith.  The assumptions work, i. e. scientific theories
have real predictive power, etc.  When an assumption does not work,
scientists discard it.  This is not the same thing as religious
faith.
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Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan