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

[David Cake]

At 1:24 AM -0700 5/12/07, Chris Gehlker wrote:
>  > You cannot be a real dyed-in-the-wool scientist and really believe in
>>  anything of this type.
>
>Clearly, some people can. They hold incompatible beliefs in different 
>compartments of their lives. This ability is not particularly rare. I 
>suspect we all do it to some extent.

	I'd say its not just common, but actually essential. Plenty 
of areas of human endeavour are simply one in which scientific ideas 
of falsifiability are not terribly useful. Aesthetics is a hopefully 
non-controversial one, and at the most basic level is pretty 
important (if not for survival, at least for social functioning). The 
point open for discussion is whether spirituality is another.
	Cheers
		David