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Old 19-February-2008, 07:42 PM
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This thread will probably be deleted because it deals with religion, but anyway...

Phil is right. Science makes only one assumption; that the universe obeys rules. But this is a big assumption when placed up against religion or the hand of a conscious deity. In order to pursue scientific inquiry, it is necessary to adopt a kind of "methodological atheism", an underlying assumption that God does not exist or, if it does, will not arbitrarily withhold or alter the laws of physics to interfere with experimental results. For some religious persons who believe in the hand of God in all things, and in the efficacy of miracles, such an assumption is difficult to take. It would lead fundamentalists to conclude that science, as a philosophy, precludes God.
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