Joe, Then I'll add to my sparse defintion:
Science is a religion whose method is based on a faith in the concept of cause-and-effect and whose 'corpus' is based on the dualistic illusion of subject/object. Is that better? ...Bill! --- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote: > > Bill!, > > Some of the body of Science -- the corpus, not the Method -- is pure > categorization, based on stringent and accumulated, vetted, observation. > > Botany, for example. And some basics of Astronomy. Geology. > > What's formed and what accumulates are lists of entities and their > properties, and how to tell them apart. No causality yet. > > I think, at that level, observational science is more an Art, or act of > careful book-keeping, than it is yet Religion, or other endeavor dependent on > Faith. It's a fun stage of the game!, and it takes a lot of work. > > --Joe > > > "Bill!" <BillSmart@> wrote: > > > > Edgar, > > > > Science is a religion based on faith in the concept of cause-and-effect. > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
