From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Wed Oct 13 2004 - 23:48:30 BST
On 13 Oct 2004 at 8:34, Scott Roberts wrote:
> msh says:
> As long as religion insists that God is unmeasurable, the two
realms
> of thought will be concerned with mutually exclusive domains. The
> only time religion and science come into conflict is when religious
> people seek for their beliefs the imprimatur of science (or math or
> logic).
scott:
They also come into conflict when materialist people claim that
science has removed the need to believe in religion.
msh says:
It may be that, for some, science has removed such a need. But why
would anyone take seriously the claim that one person may determine
another's spiritual needs? Unless these "materialist people" have
some political or physical power over what other people believe, I
see no chance of real conflict.
Besides, in the US at least, secularism is threatened far more by the
political influence of the religious right than the other way around.
Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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