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To: gao seng who wrote (26130)	9/7/2001 8:20:15 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) of 82486

Gulp. I appreciate that article. And there's the key dispute: a cosmology that does not account for human beings or enlighten us about the role we may play in the universe will never satisfy the demand for a functional cosmology that religions have been trying to satisfy for millennia. For some, this is reason to reject science. Those are the ones I debate... Others recognise this as a limitation caused by the (necessary) separation of science - the descriptive how and why of the universe - from aspirations and wishes. Science can answer 'how did we come to be here', in more and more detail and with more and more proof and even demonstration. The 'why' can presumably never be scientifically answerable... people may believe what they will, and if they require that we have a purpose beyond that of all life, they will. But if people set their non-scientific belief against science, they'll lose. "Still it revolves."

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