[FoRK] Faith and/or Science dingding redux

[Jeff Bone]

On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Jeff Bone wrote:

>
> On Nov 26, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Sat N wrote:
>
>> Any good religion will dispatch its most respected
>> clerics/cardinals/priests to defend itself when faced with criticism.
>>
>> Science being one such good religion has called for the help of its
>> own priests( scientists) to its rescue.
>
> Wrong.
>
> Religion is insanity.  Religion causes this kind of nonsense:
>
>   http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/27/sudan.bears/? 
> iref=mpstoryview

To the point:

Teachers don't get whipped for learning exercises involving images of  
e.g. Newton.

Additionally:

Religions are primarily concerned with enforcing a particular social  
order, norms, and behavior, and only incidentally / superficially /  
supposedly interested in explanation.  Science is exclusively focused  
on the latter, and not at all on the former.


jb