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On 28/02/07, Oliver Humpage <oliver at watershed.co.uk> wrote:
> Yeah, like I said, science works within the bounds of science. I've no
> problem with that: I consider the scientific method perfect for things you
> can measure. But unless you're a hardline reductionist, there are things in
> the world you can't measure, and that's where science becomes less useful.
>
> Dawkins has the view that science has the potential explain *everything*. In
> this I find him arrogant and annoying.
>
> I agree with Dawkins that religion has far too strong a hold on the world,
> but I disagree with just about everything else he says.

He's like someone who's never had the experience of being in love,
telling a happily-in-love couple that love CANNOT POSSIBLY EXIST,
ALRIGHT?

Tim