"Religion and Science" Is Not Just Intelligent Design vs. Evolution »
Posted By CJSHayward 6 months, 2 weeks ago in ReligionEarly in one systematic theology PhD course at Fordham, the text assigned as
theology opened by saying, "Theologians are scientists, and they are every bit
as much scientists as people in the so-called 'hard sciences' like physics."
Not content with this striking claim, the author announced that she was going
to use "a term from science," thought experiment , which was never used
to mean a Gedanken experiment as in physics, but instead meant: if we
have an idea for how a society should run, we have to experimentally try out
this thought and live with it for a while, because if we don't, we will never
know what would have happened. (" Stick your neck out! What have you got to
lose? "— "Your head?") The clumsiness in this use of "a term from
science" was on par with saying that you are going to use "an expression from
American English", namely rabbit food , and subsequently use "rabbit
food" as obviously a term meaning food made mostly from rabbit meat.
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