Officially OT -> Re:My fiscal responcibility...

[James Knott]

Lloyd Budd wrote:
> 
> On 22-May-04, at 21:36, James Knott wrote:
> 
>>  However, the entire idea of a "God" or other deity is most certainly 
>> a delusion.  Such beliefs were developed as a way to explain the 
>> world, at a time when there was no other explanation.  Now it's just 
>> fiction.
> 
> 
> Now there is explanation ?  "Is there consensus on where [science] ends 
> and [faith] begins" ?

Well, science is generally demonstratable and provable.  Faith is simply 
what some people believe, with little or no basis in reality.

If I make a claim in science, I have to provide a complete description 
of the process taken to arrive at a conclusion and it must be 
repeatable.  With faith, there is little to substantiate the claims.

There's a couple of books worth reading on this area.  They are Carl 
Sagan's "A Demon Haunted World" and "Voodoo Science" by Robert Park.
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