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

[David Cake]

At 6:29 PM +0100 4/12/07, Mark Smith wrote:
>On 04.12.2007, at 17:51, José Trejos wrote:
>
>>  Many religious beliefs can coexist with scientific
>>  knowledge.
>
>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 (: ).

	A person can believe in something 
personally, while acknowledging that it cannot be 
proven to others. Such a person remains a 
scientist as far as I'm concerned.
	It would be irrational to continue to 
believe such a thing if definite evidence against 
came along, but in cases where no evidence either 
way is likely to surface? Sure.

	Cheers
		David