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To: betty boop
The authority of God is sui generis, and quite beyond human understanding.

This may be true but it is of no use to scientific inquiry. The same argument has been made for nearly all proposed deities; none of them are part of science for this reason. It fails to even distinguish among the competing deities. Scientific inquiry is by its own nature restricted to what humans can understand.

Likewise such an idea is of no use in political of legal decisions. "God told me to do it," is not and excuse for any action. The legal system judges (or at least ought to judge) actions, not philosophical beliefs of the actors.

1,327 posted on 05/04/2006 8:31:21 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic

Dear, beloved Doc: There is more to life than "legal decisions." And even more to life than "scientific methodology." You already know that, and so why do I have to remind you of all this, dear friend?


1,331 posted on 05/04/2006 9:05:50 PM PDT by betty boop (Death... is the separation from one another of two things, soul and body; nothing else.)
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