From: "Santosh Helekar" <chimbel...@yahoo.com>
--- On Wed, 4/15/09, Fr. Ivo C. de Souza <icso...@bsnl.in> wrote:
I have no "my own pre-conceived religious beliefs"....
Interesting statement! I wonder how much credulity one would have to be
endowed with in order to believe that a religious man like Fr. Ivo does
not have his own pre-conceived religious beliefs. Perhaps, much more than
that required to believe that his religious education gives him the
ability to recognize what is genuinely scientific while my scientific
education does not give me the ability to do so.
The claims made by him that a historical statement is automatically
scientific, and that science approves of Homeopathy and Ayurveda are
demonstrably bogus. Please see my earlier posts on these issues in the
Goanet archives.
Here is a nice article published by the American Council on Science and
Health on pseudoscience in the alternative medical belief systems like
Homeopathy and Ayurveda.
http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.908/healthissue_detail.asp
***Christian Faith is not "my own", "pre-conceived", "religious beliefs". If
I have "religious education", it is critical, scientific, historical,
literary, hermeneutical--in one word, whatever scientific instruments we
have, like history, archaeology, textual criticism, exegetical trends. The
problem is what you mean by "genuinely scientific". Does it mean that it is
only materialistic worldview or holistic worldview? You say that to state
that "a historical statement is automatically scientific" is demonstrably
bogus. If it is historical by observation and all other criteria, possible
for such a research, how can it be "bogus"?
Regarding Homeopathy, it is not enough to quote articles by people who do
not know it at all. Let people who have been practising and experiencing it
speak of their evidence.
Regards.
Fr.Ivo
