marc9000 writes:
My reason for saying that "I'm not convinced spirituality is the proper word for anything that can be falsified or tested" is a way to cut through all the rabbit trails and get to my point so that I can....maybe finish up!
No matter how you cut it, no matter what excuses you provide, your statement is still wrong. No one claimed that spirituality can be falsified or tested. There are no atheists or agnostics out there, and certainly no one here, claiming or implying or even saying anything that can be remotely interpreted as implying that spirituality can be falsified or tested.
Books like these are responses to fundamentalist Christian attacks on science and science education. When Christian fundamentalism ceases these attacks the responses will also cease.
Sure, then science becomes god! Global warming and abortion are the new morality. As you probably noticed from the last election, it's going to take a while.
This is again a reflection of your own paranoid thoughts rather than anything real, and once again it isn't a response to anything I said. Science wouldn't be responding to fundamentalist Christian claims that Genesis is science if fundamentalist Christians weren't making those claims.
--Percy