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Pastimes : The Meaning of Life - Discussion
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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (120)8/12/1998 2:06:00 AM
From: Tony  Read Replies (1) of 242
 
I'm not sure if I understood you to mean your leaving the thread. If so, I'm sorry, it's been interesting. If not:

Do I understand you to mean that your solution would be to eliminate theology/religion? (ignore the implementation problems) Personally, I'm not convinced that would help all that much. Among other things, if they're right then everybody loses, as alleged theological proofs can apparently not be mathmatically derived or experimentally verified.

Problem is, I can't think of any sane way to screen screwball religious thoughts from rational ones. If I say that such and such a structure has such and such a strength, it can be measured and verified. Then maybe the structure can be used for something. I can't think of a way to do that for religion, so by and large I ignore it. But that doesn't really work, does it? Whoever said "If I discard less than 50% of my data to make it fit a theory, the theory is proved," was not really acting as a scientist...
-Tony
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