From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-03-31T23:50:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] On banning (Was: New presentation on Ruby)

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Eleanor McHugh wrote:

> On 31 Mar 2007, at 12:49, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
>> For well over 100 years there used to be an overwhelming consent in
>> the scientific world to not even consider "design" as part of an
>> explanation of any observation made. Now the creator is back.
>
> Yes, well both sides of that argument are equally as illogical. As far as I'm 
> aware no one has ever proposed an experiment that can either confirm or deny 
> the existence of a 'creator', and that makes atheism as much a religious 
> belief as theism.

indeed.  i like this way of thinking about it:

"what science finds to be nonexistent, we must accept as nonexistent; but what
science merely does not find is a completely different matter... it is quite
clear that there are many, many mysterious things." -- h.h. the 14th dalai lama


-a
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