Worth Re: [FoRK] Faith and/or Science - Newton et al

[Jeff Bone]

On Nov 28, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Tom Higgins wrote:

> On Nov 28, 2007 1:50 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
> <drernie at radicalcentrism.org> wrote:
>
>> Religion is about creating shared meaning, and that cuts both ways.
>
> That is an interesting definition of religion.

Indeed it is, particularly given how ABOMINABLY BAD religion has  
been, historically, at achieving that stated end ("shared meaning")  
and how very precisely science-as-method is a means of achieving the  
same thing far more reliably.

jb