In article <3uvgjuonsjfssbkomc76cuph2b3codv994 at 4ax.com> Bob LeChevalier <lojbab at lojban.org> writes:
<JDay123 at BellSouth.com (Jd) wrote:
<>In alt.education Re: brain sizes: Einstein's and women's,
<>Bob LeChevalier wrote...
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<>>Is Gideon's test repeatable by others? If it is not, then it is not science.
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<>It would be up to God whether or not a fleece you put out on the
<>lawn one night would have dew on it the next morning or not.
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<If it is "up to God", then it is not science. You cannot test it (God
<specifically has warned against our attempting to test God; see Job)
And a lovely story that warning makes, too. God whacks Job, afflicts
him greivously, even killing his kids and servants and livestock, all
to win a bar bet with Satan. But noble Job perseveres, and in the
end God restores him all he's lost.
Of course the children and the servants and the animals are still
dead. I wonder if they learned something important from all this.
-- cary
