>Walter ReMine writes:
>
>>No, that is not the definition of science. Science puts the emphasis on
>>***testability***, and does not rule out the supernatural.
>
>Can you provide a reference to one single dictionary that says your
>definition of science is correct? All the definitions I have ever seen rule
>out the supernatual. I may not like this, and I do firmly believe that God
>intervenes in this world, but the definiition of science does not include the
>supernatural.
Glenn is refuted by my ordinary desktop dictionary, _Webster's New
Collegiate_. It lists four definitions of "science" and none of them makes
any proscription against the supernatural. (On the contrary, definition #2
gives as its example, "the science of theology".)
-- Walter ReMine