Re: The Emptiness of Theology

From: David Canzi -- non-mailable address (dmcanzi_at_remulak.ads.uwaterloo.ca)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 03:38:13 +0000 (UTC)

In article <20040730131310.0a510650@lfs.mydomain.com>,
Albert <alwagner@tcac.net> wrote:
>dmcanzi@remulak.ads.uwaterloo.ca (David Canzi -- non-mailable
>address) wrote:
>
>> In article <20040728134504.1da164b9@lfs.mydomain.com>,
>> Albert <alwagner@tcac.net> wrote:
>> >Science does not even *ask* the deep and ultimate questions.
>>
>> Science knows better than to ask questions for which proposed
>> answers will be, by their nature, impossible to investigate.
>
>Exactly. Science can only investigate objects and processes in
>Nature. Not anything out of nature nor anything subjective,
>which leaves the most important questions unanswerable by
>science,

Nobody dies from not knowing the answers to these "most important
questions". They can't be all that important.

If some fact can't be known by observation, how do you propose to
discover it? 

-- 
David Canzi	"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches.  You rarely find
		a nonconformist who goes it alone.  And woe to him inside a
		nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity."
		-- Eric Hoffer

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