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Re: What's The Difference Between 'God' & 'Science'? - 06-21-2007, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Profpat View Post
Hi:

I guess I don't understand the question. Isn't that like asking what is the difference between Plato and arithmetic? Wouldn't the better question be whats the difference between geometry and arithmetic. Or in our case WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE.

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Profpat
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Dear Prof:
Please consider that religion and God usually have very little to do with one another.

Whereas, God and Science are often closely related if and when not synonymous.

Does that help any?

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(George Berkeley, 1710) ... lay the beginning in a distinct explication of what is meant by thing, reality, existence: for in vain shall we dispute concerning the real existence of things, or pretend to any knowledge thereof, so long as we have not fixed the meaning of those words.

"All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus
"Reality is an illusion - albeit a persistent one." - Einstein
"Particles give me a headache." - Ibid