Rick you are under the false assumption that the tenets you present have
always been. Without offering a history lesson let me assure you that
each religion is dynamic and evolving in all aspect. Trust me. It is a
myth to think what is the theology, ritual, ceremony, rite, writings
today--even of the ones you specifically mention-- of any religion or its
various sectarian forms, that is, any form of worship today has always
been and has been the same through the past 50-100 millenia.
Moreover, by your thinking, and I will not address your conveniently loose
definition of science, the science faith is equally static: (1) there are
laws governing all aspects of the universe; (2) that these laws are
intelligible; (3) that man, as a part of that universe, is equally
governed by phyusical, economic, social, political, legal, psychological,
etc laws; (4) that these laws are universal, eternal, immutuable,
unchangeable; (5) that man has the capacity to seek out and discover these
laws; and (6) having discovered these laws, man can implement them and
live in closer communion with nature.
Make it a good day.
--Louis--
Louis Schmier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of History http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/louis.html
Valdosta State University
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