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To: tpaine
Someone mentioned you were rough-housing recently with your dog, whose name was "Sobriety." I was wondering how the wrestling bout went. Did you get licked?
19 posted on 06/11/2002 8:59:11 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
Did I get licked by a mythical dog? Is this a 'soft science' question?

When a cannon ball is fired, science can accurately predict where it will land, how long it takes to get there, what impact it will have, etc. It can be replicated time and time again, and the same results can be derived. This ability of science does not carry over when studying people, though. The humanist understanding of human nature is not a hard science, but rather a soft science. It has little real understanding of the human condition. When the humanists try to fathom something as complex as human nature, they can be compared to modern chemistry back when it was called 'alchemy.' But we are not completely in the dark about human nature, though. Religion has been called the Science of the Soul, and has a highly developed understanding of human nature. The most ignorant of medieval peasant knew much more about the human condition than the most learned of modern professor who denies the existence of God and the devil. Modern science has no explanation for something so basic to human nature as why a child loves its mother, much less something as complex as the love between a creature and its Creator. Spare me the hubris which emanates from the so-called Doctors of the Soft Sciences!" - CJ

20 posted on 06/11/2002 9:23:20 PM PDT by tpaine
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