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To: Amos the Prophet
Spinestein's definition of science is obviously a closed box. Science must never be a closed box.

Science is a closed box to the supernatural. That's part of the foundation of science and part of it's fundamental philosophy. Science seeks naturalistic explanations, not supernatural ones. Science has no business probing the supernatural or philosophical. It can't do it. Just like religious dogma has no place in science. Religion is biased and is choked full of preconceptions and superstitions.

That's why the Dover case is important. The defense seeks to CHANGE the definition and practice of science to include the possibility of supernatural intervention. At that point, it ceases being science because 'goddidit' becomes an acceptable explanation that serves to generate no new knowledge.

115 posted on 11/17/2005 8:10:47 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: doc30
Science is a closed box to the supernatural.

Absolutely incorrect. The definition of supernatural you choose to use distinguishes it from the universe. Your distinction that the supernatural is philosophical and theological similarly fails to acknowledge that the spiritual is an aspect of natural phenomenon. You have defined your terms to fit your bias. That is not science. It is dogma.

116 posted on 11/17/2005 9:06:03 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (THIS IS WAR AND I MEAN TO WIN IT.)
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