Steve, then Peter wrote

> >The problem that I percieve is the claim of the scientific
> >community that it is the only knowledge with credence.
>
> The scientific community doesn't claim that.


This is the age-old, now old-age conflict between science and religion which
got Gallileo, Copernicus and Darwin into such hot water with the "celestial
powers that be".

I think that science claiming or having foisted upon it, the label of
hpossessing the new truth of the universe is largely past. The optimism of the
1950's probably fuelled this idea but since then I suspect that large doses
of reality - problems with nuclear power, pollution and new, virulent,
biological agents has sniffed out any predilection that science is the new
Omnipotence.

To some extent followers of New Age thinking are challenging sciences claim
to truth in attempt to establish their way of thinking and present an
alternative to the wasteful, spiritually bankrupt etc, etc, lives we all live.
However I don't beleive that science is rising to the challenge - perhaps too
many real world problems to deal with ;-)

I do believe that society is having trouble keeping up with the rapid change
in science and technology. This is causing stress and pressure to selectively
reject some technologies based on convenience.

But that's a whole new debate .....


Stuart
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