---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "J. Almeida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 08:29:03 -0700 (PDT)
>Dear Santosh, > >Bald factual claims such as those relating to the >missing corpse of the historical Jesus, or the >subsequent response of his disciples to persecution, >have never been unfalsifiable. Let historical >scholarship aided by increasingly sophisticated >technology continue to refute any falsehoods, so that >nobody need be deceived. > Conversely, the claims made about Jesus and his disciples - much of it forming the basis of christianity have not been proven either. Furthermore, based on current state of the art, much of it would be very difficult to prove, thus making some of the foundations of christianity very shaky indeed. Perhaps this could change in the future. Until this is done however, I do not believe much of the fundamentals of christianity passes the test of the scientific method as practiced today. One should add however that nothing is solid or well defined in the world of science either. Newtonian mechanics was deemed to be "the law" until the theory of relativity came along. In retrospect, we now know that the observations that were made during the newtonian era while passing the criteria of the scientific method during that period, were found to be subsets of laws as defined by relativity, and therefore not fully accurate. On the otherhand, this too is part of the scientific method, a back door exit strategy if you will in which once something is "proven" valid, it can then be proven to be invalid when something better comes along. This is in a sense an acknowledgement by science that that there is no "eternal truth" and that human observation/data collection/interpretation is not perfect. This is in many ways eloquently, but subtly suggested in Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" which puts limits to the accuracy and/or quantity of information that can be obtained through the scientific process. Perhaps if some of the people of the various religions of the world accepted this principle, this world would be a much better place today. Marlon Germany: 2002 World Cup Champions (now this is an absolute) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
