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To: John Hayman who wrote (7735)	12/5/2006 12:06:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12246

The layman can't have more than a cartoon character understanding, like they do with Global Warming: <You will also see how the laymen's understanding of science is about a 100 years behind the times. You may be surprised to learn that, unlike a 100 years ago, science is no longer waging an all out assault upon religion. In fact science is beginning to support some of the fundamental tenants of most religions and is laying a groundwork for a new spirituality. I'm not suggesting that science is supporting the dogma which tends to surround institutionalized religion.> Unfortunately, they get the basic idea, sort of, then become converts to some dogma and go berserk as though anyone who disagrees with them is ipso facto a heretic who can be cured with a jolly good beating and burning at the stake. There's a popular trend these days to claim science and religion are not as far apart as was once thought. Unfortunately, the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater and the layman, with the intelligence of a frog, concludes that any screwball superstition they have is a fundamental truth of the cosmos. I think the writer meant "tenets of religion" not "tenants of religion", but maybe he was making a pun and a snide remark about the irrational superstitious tenants of the barbarian temples. By the time you separate the dogma from the tenants of religion, you are left with nothing but the questions "What the heck is going on around here? Where did we come from? Where are we going? What the heck are we anyway? And how do we know?" Religionists make up ideologies from lots of turtle stacked up to magical long-bearded blokes dressed in togas [who should of course be in charge, have all their needs provided by the believers, have the pick of the girls [or choir boys]]. Physicists look for real answers to the questions. Religionists get a ready-made "bible/quran" so they don't have to think, but can confine their energies to hacking the infidels and burning heretics at the stake. Religionists specifically do NOT look for answers. They already have them. The last thing they want is to check their answers for accuracy. There is an insuperable gap between religionists and rationalists, though both purport to answer the same questions. Mqurice