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Science and Religion: Reply to John F. Miller

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Norman C. Siefferman
Norman C. Siefferman
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Rector, Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbus, Georgia
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Religious Studies , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , September 1970 , pp. 281 - 287
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page 281 note 1 ‘Science and Religion: Their Logical Similarity’, by Miller, John F., Religious Studies, Vol. 5, number I, October 1969.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 281 note 2 Miller, , op. cit., p. 50.Google Scholar

page 282 note 1 This does not include such conditions as, e.g. psychological shock; for instance, when some personal tragedy prompts one to abandon religious beliefs.

page 282 note 2 Miller, , op. cit., p. 50.Google Scholar

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page 283 note 1 Miller, , op. cit., p. 52 n.Google Scholar

page 283 note 2 ‘Correct’ in physical theory usually means such things as the ability of the theory to predict future empirical events, correlate present events, etc.

page 283 note 3 Nagel, Ernest, The Structure of Science; Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., New York, 1961, pp. 65–6.Google Scholar

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page 284 note 1 For a simplified account of the neutrino, see Guillemin's, VictorThe Story of Quantum Mechanics, Charles Scribner's Sons, Inc., New York, 1968, p. 142.Google Scholar

page 284 note 2 ‘As they are now used’, because it is probable that once such principles could be falsified, e.g. the contest between Elijah and the prophets of Baal in I Kings 18.

page 284 note 3 See Holton, and Roller, , Foundations of Modern Physical Science, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. 1965, chapters 16–20.Google Scholar

page 285 note 1 Whatever is correct about this discussion is due to Karl, Popper'sConjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, Harper and Row, New York, 1963.Google Scholar

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