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Old 13th May 2008, 03:50 AM
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Originally Posted by evangelicalhumanist
And finally, one more Saganism:

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The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths

Yet, religion holds dearly to the one thing that science says cannot be: sacred truth.

How do you see these ever getting closer together?

If that were true, then let S be any scientific sentence. If every S is possibly false, then so is the sentence: "there is good reason to believe a scientific sentence is more approximately correct of nature versus a non-scientific sentence." Any sentence that is used to justify this sentence itself would be possibly false ad infinitum. Even this sentence is possibly false!
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