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

[Luis Villa]

On Nov 28, 2007 7:33 PM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>
> On Nov 28, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Tom Higgins wrote:
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> > 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.

Uh... meaning? Science does a lot of things, and I love science, but
it is pretty bad at creating meaning.

Luis