Subj : Re: The universe
To   : Bob Eyer
From : John Wilson
Date : Tue Dec 26 2000 06:08 am

-=> Bob Eyer wrote to John Wilson <=-

 BE> BE:
 BE> -...nobody
 BE> -made the mistake of supposing that the Big Bang theory ought to
 BE> -be attached to the catechism of some religion.

 >I make that "mistake" all the time :-)

 BE> But you're not a physicist.  I was talking about physicists.

 Betcha some of them guys do, also:)


 BE> -This idea is false because it is
 BE> -incompatible with the mathematical formalism in General
 BE> -Relativity which was responsible for the development of the Big
 BE> -Bang theory in the first place.

 >General relativity and quantum theory are still banging heads WRT
 >gravity...but that's off the point, there's enough bad science
 >and bad theology for all....

 BE> But much theology is bad because it tries to be science.

 Most if not all theology is bad when it attempts to BE science, but not
 when it accepts it's wonders :)     

 BE> Better to drop the theology in discussions of scientific views
 BE> of the universe.

 No, there's equally bad science when it trys to enter the world of
 poetry, art, value, or thinks it has "disproved" religion.
 ...or believes it to have the only correct `view of the universe'


 Cheers...




 
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