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Jim Swanson wrote:
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>>I would like to register my disagreement. Science offers an escape from the
>>religious and nationalistic furor that have served people as excuses to murder
>>each other for millenia. The basic tenet of the scientific "belief system" is
>>that hypotheses are put to the test. This is smug?
 
While I don't disagree, I do not think science is entirely innocent either.
Hypotheses may be put to the test, but what about application?  Science
certainly has had a part to play in "religious and nationalistic furor," but
then so have we all in one way or another.
 
Richard Shockley
Fort Whoop-Up Centre
Lethbridge AB Canada
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