[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance

[ravi]

On 06/11/05 23:34, Autoplectic wrote:
> On 6/11/05, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>>  Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes:
>> 
>> The virtue of science is that it has made it unnecessary for us to
>> have any hypothesis concerning God or gods or goddesses. 
> 
> <snip>
> 
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> 
> Well the historical/theological origins of science[s] are a separate
> issue from whether God actually does *any* explanatory work in modern
> science as it has been practiced. So, Yoshie is correct.
> 

i beg to disagree. science has made it no less necessary for my mother
and her sisters to believe in god (or entertain hypotheses about
him/her/it). without exaggeration, i could claim that science
(especially in its practice), in all its elitist complexity, has perhaps
motivated a turn (or at least a reinformcement) towards (of) god-hypotheses.

your turn... ;-)

	--ravi