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On 28 Feb 2007, at 08:51, Tim Beadle wrote:

> 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?

Whereas most of us have had Christian fairy stories fed to us from a
young age so it's now part of us whether we want it or not. This is
tantamount to child abuse. And we're opening more "faith schools"?
Crazy.

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