On 23/04/2010 08:36, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Trevor wrote:
**********. It goes to credibility. People who embrace the supernatural
have a real credibility problem when it comes to logic and reason.

That's not so. Many believe in a 'higher power' but eschew formal
religions, all of which date back to the days before even pretty basic
scientific knowledge.


Theist agnosticism, then. I find that position relatively easy to
understand. I really can't reconcile people well able to deploy logic
and reason being religious.

Robert Winston put it quite well in a recent TV programme, explaining
his faith as inexplicable and a form of cultural baggage that just is,
and better for everyone to move on and not try to equate his personal
beliefs with his professional work. They're two different things. Well,
he didn't put it quite like that I'm sure but that's what I remember.

Still don't get it - if I believed in that type of thing, I'd want to
know why, given how fundamental it is. Perhaps you have to be one to
know it. Dunno.

Just knowing that vinyl and valves sound better is good enough for me,
though :-)

Rob