Dan Minette wrote:
>
>> Uh? Does it mean that someone could be taken to a
>> court by claiming that Pi = 4?
>
> No, they just have a very unusual float to integer
> transform, which rounds up instead of truncates. :-)
>
>> Or by denying Evolution?
>
> But evolution isn't a fact its a theory.
>
> A theory that is very well supported by the facts,
> mind you, but still a theory. :-) Its no more a
> fact than QED.
>
So is Holocaust - after all, we all might have been
created this Thursday, with implanted memories.
> I think that, properly taught, a semester long
> discussion of creationism "science" vs. evolution
> and cosmology would be a very good way of teaching
> the nature of science.
>
Why the Pseudo-Christian Creation Myth? I'd rather
watch a discussion of the Tupi Creation Myth.
BTW [as I mentioned en passant yesterday in the
Chat Room] some days ago I watched a Priest
[Padre Quevedo] say something about Christian
Science. In resume, he said that it ain't.
Something like:
When Jesus answers that he doesn't know when
will be the end of the world [I don't know
the exact quote...], he is just saying that
_Religion should never bother about this
question, because this belongs to Science_,
thus separating Religion and Science. The argument
is that, since Jesus was God and God is omniscient,
he _knew_ when would be the end of the world,
but he was explicitly avoid answering that question
because it's not a religious question.
Alberto Monteiro
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