RE: [asa] Can Science Test Supernatural Worldviews? by Yonatan I. Fishman

Moorad, Could you please list the 'sciences' that you consider to be 'the hard sciences,' as you call them? Or, alternatively, it would be helpful to know of the 'sciences' that you consider *not* to be 'the hard sciences.' - Thanks, Gregory

--- On Wed, 4/22/09, Alexanian, Moorad <alexanian@uncw.edu> wrote:

From: Alexanian, Moorad <alexanian@uncw.edu>
Subject: RE: [asa] Can Science Test Supernatural Worldviews? by Yonatan I. Fishman
To: "Bill Powers" <wjp@swcp.com>
Cc: "Bill Cobern" <bill.cobern@wmich.edu>, "asa@calvin.edu" <asa@calvin.edu>
Received: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 2:50 AM

Bill,

Experimental science is quite successful in the hard sciences. I am not sure if
you can reduce answer to prayers to be an experimental science. If am not sure
that prayers addressed to God can be so systematized. I do not think fancy
Bayesian analysis would be useless here. Note that here we are dealing with free
will on the part of all concerned and so the system is not that simple.

Moorad

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