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To: one_less who wrote (77579)	4/10/2000 7:04:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Our current level of scientific understanding is 100% useless in the quest to prove or disprove a God. It is however quite sufficient to dispose of of the concept of Biblical inerrancy. Remarkably few Christians are biblical inerrantists. There is room to be both a Christian and a scientist so long as one meets two criteria: 1) One never uses a religious mythos to set scientific premises. (In practice, this means being flexible enough to let the observed phenomena guide formulation of theory, regardless of what the church, or the other university, might teach.) 2) One recognizes that the scope of scientific theory is limited to the sensual universe. Science cannot be invoked to explain things that are beyond reproducible measurement, such as testimonial "evidence". Science cannot treat of the final question of divine nature. But what it can do is define and confine the actions of a God upon the material, sensual universe. It is in this definition that the collision between dogmatists and empiricists occurs. ...The irony is that sometimes the materialist dogmatists get their oxen gored as well. That is the beauty of science honestly pursued - the final right to say "We do not understand this."