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Dear Dr Monsch,
Of course I realise the fragment wasn’t yours. It was abstracted from one of Peter Hosier’s long postings, as you yourself state:
“From your previous e-mail I understand that since God is truth, He shouldn't be left out of scientific work”
I was not replying to your missive, but to Peter Hosier’s; I simply used your epitome as a convenient springboard. When christians of all sorts of fundamentalist persuasions try to impose religious beliefs on one or other fields of science it is always their particular brand of religion, and no other, that they are concerned about. They never want to impose other religious beliefs, in addition to their own, on this exploration we call science. It is a very blinkered view which I find nearly as offensive as their attempted imposition itself.
Your dismissal of my opinion that the only way that religious beliefs could interact with science is as a subject of study I believe to be premature. As the study of brain function and development progresses, explanations of why some people have no need to believe in gods while others feel they must, will surely be one of the results. I hope this is the case.
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