mijoon |
02-09-2004 06:43 PM |
Well , sacX ,an excellent and intelligent reply !
I partly agree ,but also disagree one some points .
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well I'm not saying they didn't believe in God because a lot of them probably did. However in their environments at their time it would have been a bad idea to say you were an atheist (like it still is in a lot of places).
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In some cases that is correct , in others the opposite was true .
In Einsteins day atheism was quite common and in fact Einstein was often attacked for being a believer .
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Newton for example could hardly have advanced his career by becoming a Fellow of Trinity College if he went and said I don't think God exists.
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True , but Newton did more than simply give lip service to God . He was , both in public and in private, much more vocal than needed to be "politically correct". Dont forget that he originally intended to be a theologist but switched to science saying it was his intention "to lay out the laws of nature with such clarity and exactness that no thinking man may deny the existince of God".
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Belief in God does not stack up with scientific method.
1. observe
2. formulate hypothesis
3. conduct experiemnts to prove/disprove hypothesis.
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Not sure of the relavence of that in light of your next statement.
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Belief in God in all likelihood can never been proved or disproved. Which is why belief in God is a faith.
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Totally agree , which is one reason why I found the statement "I dont believe in God , I believe in science" to be ,mmm, amusing .
:)
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