[FoRK] Faith and/or Science dingding redux

[Jeff Bone]

On Nov 27, 2007, at 5:13 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Jeff Bone wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Right, science has never been used as a tool to support a  
> particular social order...

Yawn...  sure, let's talk about the Soviets again.  Or the Nazis?   
Whatever.  ANY method, ideology, process, etc. can be misappropriated.

The bottom line stands as stated:  the *purpose* of science, at its  
most basic, is understanding;  the *purpose* of religion, at its most  
basic, is social control.

jb