>And I've yet to see any good reason why divine intervention should be
given
>a privileged (or underprivileged) position, placing it outside the
bounds of
>science.
Maybe because all attempts in the past to integrate divine intervention
and science have resulted in the priests controlling science in an
attempt to control or influence divine intervention. Easier to offer
sacrifices than to do physical work - especially when someone else always
pays for the sacrifice.
Theoretically religions set out to honor God but pragmatically degenerate
into systems to manipulate God. At least in non-liturgical Christian
churches the congregational prayer requests are primarially to intervene
and change circumstances. No one is satisfied with the hand God has dealt
him. The strangests requests are for God to alter the past. <G>
I believe that God created the universe but I don't see how this effects
basic science.
billwald@juno.com
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