Saturday, August 30, 2003

Mini essay: Doug on science and religion, sparation of church and state Posted here Saturday, August 30, 2003 at 3:47:26 PM       Let's keep going. Further on the religious nature of the west, which is decidedly structured around divine providentialism, from biblical tradtions, and sciecne arises as part of that, with assumptins in tact. There is not a break incosmologies or implications for society. . Take, for example, the very idea of "evolution", which indicates a line of unfolding that is preformed, given in the beginning. Hence all we need is points along the way, we do not have to establish the line.   The shift from Baconian event observation to newtonian deductionism, hence avoiding the problem of induction, was done in a specifically religious environment with explicitly religious arguments. From a broader perspective, science will turn out to be every bit as religious as others. Hence separation of church and state is only "separation" from a privileged point of view. We must do better if our analytic frame is to hold the contradictions. ********