Re: Making money from Java

In article <1134531661.345534.173010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Richard <riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If you assume the Bible is correct, then
>> there can be no evidence to demonstrate it to be false, because God could,
>> by definition, do anything, so any "evidence" we found could simply be a
>> Devine artifact.
>
>Exactly. That is why religious beliefs are not in any way scientific,
>or even logical.

I'd agree halfway, Mr Plinston. Religion is not 'science' if 'science'
includes, as one of its criteria, the reproducibility of results.

'Logic', on the other hand, may be seen as 'a game played by a particular
set of rules' (Witt.); given that definition a religion can be 'logical'.

DD

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