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I'm glad you responded to that, Anders. I had caught the same
phrase, wanted to respond, but didn't take the time.

Laddie Elwell
Headwaters Science Center

On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Anders Liljeholm wrote:

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> You had me until the phrase "anti-science".
>
> Science and religion absolutely address different needs and answer
> different questions.  But I believe the only way to end this war is to
> get both sides to realize they aren't inherently opposites.  That
> science answers factual question about HOW the natural world works,
> while religion is a way to answer moral questions about WHY some  
> actions
> are right and others are wrong.  As similar as chocolate ice cream and
> shoveling snow, indeed.  Religion is inherently non-science.  But it
> doesn't have to be anti-science.
>
> Granted, if your faith has six-day creation from Genesis as its
> foundation, science threatens that.  But there are plenty of religious
> people who can accept scientific explanations of all sorts of  
> things, if
> we tell those stories well.
>
> -Anders Liljeholm
> Speaking for myself and not at all officially for my employer.
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> Date:    Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:42:36 -0800
> From:    David Savory <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: museum responses to the Evolution/Creationist debate
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> I think the key is remembering there are separate satisfactions  
> afforded
> by science and religion. "Debate" is fruitless because people are
> talking past each other- you might as well be trying to convince  
> someone
> who wants a chocolate sundae to shovel snow instead. The assumptions,
> premises and understandings are all different. Science should  
> happen in
> science centres and anti-science should happen in church. Trying to  
> make
> them happen at the same time in the same place will only result in the
> annihilation of good feelings in a flash of heat, not light.
>
> David Savory
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