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I agree that religious methodologies are not appropriate for science.
However, I am getting a little annoyed with some people on this thread painting all people with participate in religion as somehow anti-science.
As I have posted before, thinking about the existence of deities plays little part in my life. However, I do work at a Catholic college. The Catholic church, for the most part, is highly supportive of science. At the upper levels, the Vatican Observatory has been a constant contributor to serious astronomy. Down in the trenches, the church supports the teaching of evolution and never gets involved when our biology instructors discuss human reproduction and the growth of the human fetus. Their feeling is that one can only have an honest Faith if you are educated to all the alternatives.
I am amazed how some on this list who profess to be so liberal (in the classic sense) and free thinking can come out with this knee-jerk bigotry regarding religion.
BC - this was not aimed at you - I just used your email to respond to the thread in general.