> > From: Lior Golgher <efraim_g@netvision.net.il>
> > Date: Monday, March 24, 1997 12:06 AM
>
> > They attack each other only when one of them wrongly assume that their
> > territories are congruent. For example scientists who believe they can
> > empirically prove there's no god, or churches claiming the sun orbits
> > Earth.
>
> You seem to be suggesting that scientists cannot empirically prove that
> there is no god. That is not true (assuming you aren't using an
> extreme 100% certainty version of "prove"). Science has historically
> shown many things do not exist (phlogiston, elan vitale, the ether)
> by offering better explanations.
I disagree. Scientists have in several cases proven that there is not
*necessarily* a god, in that there are other explanations for various
phenomena that have been used as evidence for god. This does not
constitute proving god's nonexistence.
Eva