Religious bigotry, was Re: SCIENCE CONFUSION IN THE US.

[Thomas Lammers]

At 01:24 PM 8/25/00 -0700, you wrote:

>IMO, science deals with the general, and religion with the specific.
>Science can tell me about life, but it can't tell me anything about *my*
>life.

I've heard it said (maybe this is a leftover from my days as a journalism
major) that science asks Who? What? Where? When? and How? but
Religion/Philosophy asks Why?

Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

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biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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