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randman 
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Message 232 of 300 (273569)
12-28-2005 4:10 PM
Reply to: Message 229 by SuperNintendo Chalmers
12-28-2005 2:35 PM


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Science may not can have an anti-religious agenda, but scientists can.
You seem to equate "science" with "scientists."
Let me put it this way, you guys say creationist scientists have a religious agenda. Can we say they do not because, after all, science does not a theistic or anti-theistic agenda?
Morever, science consists of people and groups of people can and do have agendas all the time. The idea that science follows a pure ideology is probably naive. There are too many examples of scientific biases in the past that were proven wrong to think the same is not true today, and by things proven wrong, I don't mean that the evidence supported mainstream opinion, but that the evidence never supported mainstream opinion, but that groups of people acted out of biasness for various reasons.
Although not related to religion at all, I think of Tesla's discoveries of over-the-horizon radar about 100 years ago, and scientists deriding him, despite their level of understanding being vastly inferiour to his, and claiming it was not possible, until we rediscovered in the 50s.
Tesla at the time could demonstrate it, and there was absolutely no reason to reject his claims at all, but people did nonetheless, just out of scientific bigotry.

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