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

[James Knott]

Peter L. Peres wrote:
> On Sat, 22 May 2004, James Knott wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well, science is generally demonstratable and provable.  Faith is simply
> 
> 
> Right. Science is provable ? With what ? With G"odel's guaranteed to be
> imperfect/incomplete mathematics ? Accurately measured with Heisenberg's
> uncertainty principle ?  Let's say it is more tangible than faith, in some
> limited technical matters, and as long as you don't look to closely.
> Trying hard != succeeding.

Science strives for accuracy, with the model improving through further 
research.  It may never be perfect, but it's continually trying to 
improve.  Faith require acceptance without questioning the "facts".
The history of human faith is littered with examples, where knowledge 
contrary to belief was suppressed, sometimes on pain of death.

One curious example, is the current pope's apology for a previous pope's 
persecution of Galileo, for claiming that the earth was not the center 
of the universe.  If one pope apologized for another, it must mean that 
one of two supposedly infallible popes goofed!

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