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From: u-dmfloy%sunset.utah.edu@utah-cs.UUCP (Daniel M Floyd)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The Ignorant assumption
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Date: 8 Sep 88 08:54:17 GMT
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In article <1383@garth.UUCP> smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes:
>...[No it doesn't and more]...
>Science is philosophy on how the universe can be understood. If some aspect
>if the universe cannot be understood in this way, then science is incomplete.
>Christianity asserts this is true: that there exists transcendental forces
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>which science cannot explain. That is an assumption.
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>...[more blah blah that we read]...

I agree with the argument (mostly). However, this point I've under-pointed
needs clarification.

No it doesn't. (Here we go again). No, Christianity doesn't make that
assertion. Some sects may. Not all do. Some are more moderate and assert:
that there exists transcendental forces which science cannot explain *today*.
This allows the concept of God as a being the understands 'science' so
well that he not only understands the universe, but controls it using
scientific laws. A being like that might even be able to make some
artificial intelligence that isn't so artificial. (This is comp.ai, or
are we changing it to comp.theology.vs.sci?). ;-)