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

[David Cake]

At 10:51 AM -0600 4/12/07, José Trejos wrote:
>There is religious fundamentalism and there are many other kinds of 
>religious spirituality. Many scientists are members of different 
>religions, of course no true scientist can be a fundamentalist of any 
>religion. Many religious beliefs can coexist with scientific 
>knowledge. The existence of "a supreme being" that some call God is 
>not necessary for science but can not be either proved or disproved
>scientifically.

	I agree that there are clearly 
religious/spiritual beliefs that are compatible 
with science, but that religious fundamentalism 
of any stripe isn't.


>Atheism is actually a kind of fundamentalism. No
>rational human can be atheist. Atheism is dogmatic and irrational.

	I disagree. It depends somewhat on your 
definition of God, but many conceptions of God 
can be clearly disposed of with Occams Razor (if 
the world is the same whether they exist or not). 
And its perfectly acceptable to be somewhat 
agnostic on some of the weirder definitions of 
God, or for that matter not bother thinking about 
them at all, and call yourself an atheist.
	Cheers
		David