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beausoleil · 03-06-2003, 05:02 PM

Interesting article in Science by Michael Ruse

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/299/5612/1523.pdf

Doubting Didymus · 03-06-2003, 05:45 PM

Excellent!

Valentine Pontifex · 03-06-2003, 05:52 PM

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Originally posted by beausoleil
Interesting article in Science by Michael Ruse

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/299/5612/1523.pdf

Dr. Ruse has said pretty much the same thing before in more popular sources and the creationists quote-mined it omitting that clear statements that science of evolutionary biology is not a religion.

What Ruse is talking about is hardly limited to evolution.

If I said that some people make money into a "religion" it would not make the law of supply and demand a religion. If I said some people treat football like a religion it would not mean that 4th down and 10 a religious term.

RBH · 03-06-2003, 06:49 PM

VP wrote

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If I said some people treat football like a religion it would not mean that 4th down and 10 a religious term.

You clearly don't live in Ahia! (And I am almost serious about that.)

RBH

Alix Nenuphar · 03-06-2003, 08:40 PM

Football is far more important and emotionally laden than religion just about everywhere I've lived. It is occasionally nerve-wracking (particularly in Brazil).

The intriguing question is: does the same neural wiring that maps religion also map to sports? I must look into that.

Dr.GH · 03-06-2003, 08:57 PM

Thanks for the link.

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Doubting Didymus Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: East Coast. Australia. Posts: 5,455	Excellent!

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Alix Nenuphar Regular Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Maryland Posts: 113	Football is far more important and emotionally laden than religion just about everywhere I've lived. It is occasionally nerve-wracking (particularly in Brazil). The intriguing question is: does the same neural wiring that maps religion also map to sports? I must look into that.

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Dr.GH Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Dana Point, Ca, USA Posts: 2,115	Thanks for the link.

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