"Rob" wrote in message
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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.

Nor me, but there are scientists, good scientists, who nevertheless have a
religious faith.

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.

On the radio recently someone compared the arguments between science and
religion as being like a fight between a shark and a tiger. Both supreme in
their own environment but each quite out of place in the other. I liked the
analogy, religion can talk about morality and the human spirit but just
looks ridiculous when it tries to present the Bible as a credible account of
the creation or as reliable history. OTOH science is amoral, it cannot say
what is "right" or "wrong".

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.

Personally I have no need of a belief in a supernatural god to inform my
notions of right and wrong, though I understand that other people do. What I
don't understand are those who will reject well-tested science in areas such
as cosmology or evolution in favour of a patently absurd account of creation
from the past just because the later comes from a "Holy Book".

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

Better to you maybe, but not necessarily to anyone else. :-)

David.