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pz · 12-01-2002, 04:22 PM

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Originally posted by beausoleil:
<strong>On the other hand (and I'm not defending the nonsense that started this thread), I think there's an awful lot we don't know about why atoms and subatomic particles interact as they do, and a lot of it underpins molecular biology (insofar as it is reductionist). When I hear Dawkins (for instance) trumpeting the end of religion, I think he forgets that his mechanisms rely on bits of physics for which we have operational laws but not, as yet, clear explanations.</strong>

Of course, if you reduce god to a lot of subatomic um-tiddly-pom, I really don't think that is exactly the kind of thing that will go over well with the fundamentalists. For that matter, it doesn't really fit well with any of the religions out there.

KC · 12-02-2002, 02:58 AM

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Originally posted by pz:
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Have you read Weiner's Time, Love, Memory? It has a great description of the period after WWII when so many physicists rushed into the booming field of genetics. Bohr and Schrodinger were extremely influential in steering many younger physicists towards biology. Hans Delbruck and Seymour Benzer are just two examples.

I wonder if Kursk would consider Bohr, Schrodinger, Delbruck, and Benzer to not be True Scientists?

[ December 01, 2002: Message edited by: pz ]</strong>

Whenever I see the term 'True Science', my BS warning klaxon starts going off. And Weiner's book is great for refuting this guy's bizarre notions.

Cheers,

KC

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