RE: virus: Spirituality-Science Compatibility

Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Thu, 27 Nov 1997 19:06:33 -0000


I said I wasn't looking for debate -- but then, this
isn't really debate, is it?

> From: Wade T.Smith[SMTP:wade_smith@harvard.edu]
>
> >spirituality and science are (at
> >least potentially) perfectly compatible.
>
> The mind without science is uncapable of spirit. It has nowhere to go.
>
It will go to the ends of the earth, if it wishes, upon the wings
of thought. So there.

> It may well kiss rings, or twiddle rosaries, or even claim to be
> reborn.
>
I doubt whether some people know they were born once.

> "...it is all over with priests and gods when man becomes scientific.
> Moral: science is the forbidden as such -- it alone is forbidden.
> Science
> is the first sin, seed of all sin, the original sin. This alone is
> morality. 'Thou shalt not know' -- the rest follows."
> - Nietzsche, "Antichrist"
>
What the hell did he know?

Robin