>> Well, obviously Catholicism is not a "pseudoscience" because it does not
pretend to be a science.
>Actually, that's false. Theology *is* the science of faith and God. That's what
theologians do. For those who accept the presuppositions, the rest is downright
positivistic. Check out anything by Donald Wiebe - who has spent his entire
career providing a powerful critique of theologians who stray from the path of
science.
This is a merely semantic claim. You mean "systematic knowledge" by science, an old definition' I mean the sort of mathetmatically based empirical investigation into nature that most people today understand by science. Theologians do not send up Hubble telescopes to find God and determine His properties.
> >although most people are not interested in their work. --jks
> Last time I checked, the American Academy of Religion and the Society for
Biblical Literature were enjoying a rather healthy membership...
>>
Yeah, well, just because some thosands of people do this stuff doesn't mean that "most" people are remotely interested, as you know.
--jks