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From: amacarth@mprgate.mpr.ca (Angus MacArthur (Contract))
Subject: Re: Randomness is a human concept (was Re: Time is a human concept)
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pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor) writes:
: In article <3a82ve$e84@news.acns.nwu.edu>,
: John DeLaughter <jed@nam.earth.nwu.edu> wrote:
: .........
: >
: >Science is not a religion; the goals and methods of science are orthogonal
: >to those of religion.  Science is a method of understanding how the
: >universe works, and that's all that it is.  But what an all!
: >
: Let me comment on this difference in methods of science and religion.
: Science tries to understand how the universe works by applying reason (logic)
: to empirical data, i.e. it is a logical structure built upon such data.
: Religion accepts 'illumination' (internally generated truths with no empirical
: support) and does not shy away from inconsistencies, which believers are asked
: to live with.
: 
: >John DeLaughter
: 


But wasn't the discovery of logic just such an 'illumination'?

Just a thought
Angus MacArthur

: Andrzej
: -- 
: 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
