From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:00 AM
To: lpc-candidates@wolfnet.org
Cc: Marketliberal
Subject: RE: [LPC-candidates] The Oppressiveness of Your Religion

Gary Kirkland wrote:

> Do you believe in "cause and effect?"
> That is the god of science and most,
> if not all, religions.

Gods are by definition supernatural, and science is based on philosophical naturalism and thus denies there is credible evidence for anything supernatural. Just because a principle -- like causality or parsimony or non-contradiction -- is essential to a worldview does not make it a "god" of that worldview.

Brian Holtz
LP candidate for Congress, CD14 (Silicon Valley) http://marketliberal.org