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From: jayb@gyre.sps.mot.com (Jay Bedsole)
Subject: Re: Science leads us towards God
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In article <CwJI4G.4zp@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca>, pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca
(Andrzej Pindor) wrote:

> In article <jayb-210994100602@bedsole.sps.mot.com>,
> Jay Bedsole <jayb@gyre.sps.mot.com> wrote:
> >In article <CwFvyE.4Ks@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca>, pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca
> >(Andrzej Pindor) wrote:
> >
> >> Science and spiritual are two mutually exclusive realms.
> >                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >I assume, as a scientist, you have evidence of this?
> >
> Yes, and I have provided it in the same posting from which you have extracted
> the above statement. Pity that you have cut it out.
> 
> >jay
> >
> Andrzej
> 
> -- 
> Andrzej Pindor                        The foolish reject what they see and 
> University of Toronto                 not what they think; the wise reject
> Instructional and Research Computing  what they think and not what they see.
> pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca                           Huang Po


How does one *prove* exclusivity? I need show you only one example of how
science and the spiritual are connected; you, on the other hand, must
demonstrate to me in every example of how they are not!

History is full of examples of scientific discoveries made in the quest to
prove the existence of God. Does this mean that I agree with the author of
the original posting?

>>> "Human science is in pursuit of the spiritual, we are looking for God."

Of course not, for the same reason. Some seek God, some seek pure facts,
some seek not at all and yet they find (waxing philosophic).

I hypothesize that we are all just a simple reaction in God's great
crucible.
Nothing more than a marginally interesting scientific experiment.

BTW, I don't usually get involved in flame-wars, so you may respond back,
but this thread is done for me. Let's not waste BW on an argument that
cannot be resolved...

it's been fun,
jay
