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"Stigers, Gregory - ANDOVER" wrote:
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>The Voyager fans on the list may be reminded of an
>episode in which a practitioner of ritual religion pointed out that
>Captain Janeway's belief that their science could tell them what was
>killing Kess was a belief, no more warranted than their belief that
>properly carrying out a certain ritual would heal Kess.

Religion originated as a way of explaining the way the world works and
influencing that working if possible (this is the reason Galileo got into
so much trouble with the church and why creationists won't accept
evolution).  Of course, science is a belief, in the sense that any idea is
a belief;  however, there is one crucial difference between science and
ritual religion.  Science works.

John D. Alleyn-Day
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