[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[Chris Gehlker]

On Dec 4, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Mark Smith wrote:

> They can coexist in a community, but not in an individual if that
> individual is really a disciplined scientist. That individual can (and
> should) recognise that the religious hocus-pocus cannot be completely
> and definitively disproven. That individual can even participate in
> the religion, but as soon as that individual really believes in it,
> that individual has ceased to be a scientist (at least according to my
> definition (: ).

Silly me! I thought Newton and Einstein were scientists. Thanks for  
setting me straight.
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