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From: mjs14@unix.brighton.ac.uk (shute)
Subject: Re: Is there a spiritual force etc.?
Message-ID: <1994Sep16.100930.16114@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Brighton, UK
References: <3546sj$4ef@infosrv.edvz.univie.ac.at> <1994Sep14.084938.6638@datcon.co.uk> <Cw4q52.CKt@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 10:09:30 GMT
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In article <Cw4q52.CKt@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca> pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor) writes:
>You will hopefully agree that the consequences of axioms used by scientist
>are for all to see (eg. the workstation you are using just now). These
>axioms are, so to say, born out by the fact that with their help scientists
>have been able to make a lot of progress in dealing with 'reality'. Now, if 
>you could give an example of useful practical consequences of religious
>axioms, you would have a point in putting them on equal footing. However,
>I am afraid that whatever you come up with will have no comparison to 
>the consequences of scientific axioms. 

Have you asked any of the lawers in your country from whence the laws of your
land draw their origin?  [Could it be from those of Britain, which in turn
would claim some correlation with the 10 Commandments?]

What about the American Constitution?
I know that you and I are not bound by it... but we both have to admit
that is every bit as existant as your workstation.  Where does that
owe its origins, if not from the religious beliefs of the Pilgrim Fathers?
-- 

Malcolm SHUTE.         (The AM Mollusc:   v_@_ )        Disclaimer: all

