<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> ravi wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid42AD9873.4050803@exitleft.org"> <pre wrap="">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.</pre> </blockquote> ...and, alas, of the personal God hypothesis since, for science, one experimental subject is as good as another. Science does not know of the "unique." Joanna <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid42AD9873.4050803@exitleft.org"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>