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From: michaelm@vax.3Com.Com (Michael McNeil)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: If Science be Religion, then ....
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Date: 22 Mar 88 16:16:48 GMT
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Reply-To: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil)
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In article <1687@aecom.YU.EDU> werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner) writes:
>
>	"If Science be Religion, then it is indeed a religion whose Gospels
>can be revised with every weekly edition of Nature."

I like the quotation, attributed I believe to Arthur Clarke, that says:
	"Science is the magic that works."  

Paraphrasing slightly to fit the current topic, I might also put it:
	"Science is the religion that works."

... In the sense that religion often describes "miracles," but these
always seem to be elsewhere when the cameras are around.  Science's
magic carpets fly us around the world, to the depths of the sea, and
to the veritable heavens.  Admittedly, science hasn't made as much
progress in the social and psychological arena, but some problems
are simply harder and take longer -- and we're all so impatient.

Michael McNeil
3Com Corporation
Santa Clara, California
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	Science is fact and thought giving strength to one another.
		Jacob Bronowski, *The Common Sense of Science*, 1967