On 19 October 2010 Michael Britt wrote: >Our minister/priest (whatever they call him) this past Sunday >decided to discuss the "God saved them" argument during his >Sermon… Religion, he said, is a journey and we do not have >all the answers.
Chris Green responded: >Michael Britt wrote: >> Religion, he said, is a journey and we do not have all the answers. >That's funny. I thought science was a journey and we didn't have all the >answers. :-) For the thoughtful religious person, the "funny" (meant of course in the sense of 'peculiar')* is surely superfluous. He or she may regard *both* that their particular sense of religion *and* that science conforms to that way of seeing them, each in their own sphere of relevance. From such a person's point of view the two statements are not necessarily mutually exclusive. (Whether they equally stand up to rigorous intellectual scrutiny in the terms expressed is another question, on which I have my own views (as do we all), best left for another day, and probably another listserv, one devoted to nothing else. :-) ) * 1936, Ian Hay, The Housemaster: What do you mean, funny? Funny peculiar or funny ha-ha? http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/funny_ha-ha Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=5817 or send a blank email to leave-5817-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
