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To: Fester Chugabrew; CarolinaGuitarman
A rather odd conversation between you two. But Fester, you have indirectly identified the distinction between faith and science that you seem unwilling to concede:

Faith, like scientific propositions, must be capable of testing, or it is not faith.

Faith is tested by inferential and deductive illogic. That which cannot be true in light of our intellectual faculties, is accepted as true nevertheless on the basis of faith.

Scientific propositions are tested by the inverse of this test for faith. And the two, proceeding as they must in polar opposite directions, cannot meet in the middle.

550 posted on 01/22/2006 7:25:56 AM PST by atlaw
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To: atlaw

Faith may on occasion be blind, but such faith is rare. Scientific theories may be blind as well. They, too, are rare.


556 posted on 01/22/2006 9:55:23 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: atlaw
Faith is tested by inferential and deductive illogic. That which cannot be true in light of our intellectual faculties, is accepted as true nevertheless on the basis of faith.

Scientific propositions are tested by the inverse of this test for faith. And the two, proceeding as they must in polar opposite directions, cannot meet in the middle.

Heck of an assertion here. Too bad it's wrong.

568 posted on 01/22/2006 1:07:42 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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