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Tedlick seems to be redefining religion so broadly as not to
be terribly useful. You can say I believe that the train I take to
work will be able to stop on time. It's closer to the truth to say
that I know that it almost always is (based on past experience
of subway performance), and that I know that I need to travel
to and from my job (or move much closer, travel on foot--which
means putting faith in a lot of other people's brakes--and spend
most of my income on housing), so I take that somewhat
calculated risk. Anyone who has faith in our technology needs
to study it more (try comp.risks).
As for "a creation implies a creator," that's
tautological but not helpful, because we have no reason other
than habit to think of the universe as a "creation."
Vicki
rosenzweig@acm.org