On 8/4/2014 10:11 AM, Stephen wrote:
>> That's not a trait I associate with people who are intelligent.
>
>  From what I can gather. Faith is something that can and does fly in the
> face of logic.
>

Just had a post I replied to on a blog with the usual "Science and 
religion are compatible, just look at all the religious people who 
did/do good science!" I gave an example of one physicist going so far 
off the rails it was flat nuts, because he "believed" in telepathy and 
psychic powers, and decided to test if the incidental flashes of light, 
produced by the body's own chemical reactions in cells, would provide a, 
"means to explain how some people could detect other people's thoughts."

My argument on the subject is, simply, "Sure, they can be compatible, 
right up until the person with that rift in their perceptions stops 
doing science, and starts doing something else entirely." That, in a nut 
shell, its like enjoying scifi flicks, involving aliens, while not 
believing in UFOs, vs. someone that hates scifi shows, because they 
"depict aliens wrong", based on their belief in UFOs. The one is 
"compatible", the other.. not so much.

And, more to the point, maybe "compatible" isn't the word they need to 
be using to describe the phenomena...

-- 
Commander Vimes: "You take a bunch of people who don't seem any 
different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get 
this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem."

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