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To: one_less who wrote (9616)	11/9/2010 6:06:44 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

I too am bemused by the phenomenon you describe toward the end of your post. In the second half of the twentieth century, Progress became a major mythos of western society. People really believed that science and technology were on the way to providing the Answer to the age-old human questions. I have been a student of the sciences since I could speak in entire sentences. I have never fallen prey to the belief that science was the final synthesis, to a term dear to Marx and Engels. (They really believed that history could be encompassed by science. Much grief resulted.) Science is limited by its very reliance on definite and definible observations. That said, while I think that I see and appreciate the limitations of science - within its boundaries I believe in it. I agree with you that morality does not yield to the scientific method. Consequently I object to the term "moral law" which implies that it does. cheers js