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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Science leads us towards God
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 16:58:26 GMT
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In article <36egpi$rmh$2@mhade.production.compuserve.com>,
Scott Way  <72123.2735@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
>Science and spirituality mutually exclusive??  What a bizarre 
>concept!
>
>Totally apart from any theological considerations, I would pose 
>the question to some psychologists/psychiatrists who will tell 
>you their "science" involves helping people in the "spiritual" 
>dimensions of their lives....
>
By enclosing the word 'science' above in quotes you provide a partial 
solution to the paradox. Maybe people who think that science and spirituality
are mutually exclusive have somewhat different concept what science is than 
you. I certainly would not count 'helping people in the "spiritual"
dimensions of their lives...' as science, however commendable such activity
might be.

>On a different note, I believe it was Francis Schaeffer (among 
>others?) who suggested that modern science actually arose from 
>spiritual Christian men believing that they COULD discover things 
>about the universe because God had created the universe to have 
>order to it.  Sounds like spirituality being linked with science 
>via both motive and presupposition.
>
I am sure that one can find 'links' between any two notions you can think
of. Depends what counts as a 'link'. If someone catches pneumonia in
the process of being baptised in a cold stream, does it mean that religion
and pneumonia are linked?

>Scott

Andrzej
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Andrzej Pindor                        The foolish reject what they see and 
University of Toronto                 not what they think; the wise reject
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pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca                           Huang Po
