Dan Minette wrote: > >> By orthogonal, I understand that the belief in science >> should be totally uncorrelated to the belief in religion, >> so that there should be an equal number of people that >> are (a) very religious and very scientifically-oriented >> (b) anti-religious and very scientifically-oriented >> (c) anti-religious and anti-science and >> (d) very religious and anti-science. > > We were actually defining different spaces. I was > talking about idea space, if you will. You were > talking about sociology space. > How can you define a topology or a metric in a space of ideas? In a space of people I can just count those that believe or don�t believe in something, or even assing a "belief rate" to each person. > It is true that many people see conflicts between > religion and science. My arguement is that those > conflicts are not inherent in what religion really > is and what science really is. > I don�t get it.
Are you treating _ideas_ as something that exist without people? For example "The Universe was created by God" or "The Universe was created because of equation Y(x, k) = H*Z(k) # Z*H(x)" would be representatives of points in the axes of Religion and Science? Alberto Monteiro
