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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To: "Pedro Giffuni S." <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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[Pedro]
> Science can only explain trivial things. Those things that are really
> important (love, human well being, war, etc...) are always unexplained
> from a scientific point of view.

Whatchamean?  Science can easily create predictive models (what most
people call 'explanations' are ways of interpreting predictive models)
for all of those phenomena.  Science can provide reasonable hypotheses
for why love and hate exists, tell some of the neurotransmitters
involved, show (chemically/psychologically) partially why and how
states of living are considered 'wellbeing' or not.

I'm very uncertain what level you want 'explanations' on - if you
could clarify, I can try to pour from my never-ending amount of wisdom
;-)  (Meaning that I can possibly throw you a pointer).

> > The belief in God is likely to go outside proof - He can't be
> > disproved, but it seems unlikely that He will be proved anytime soon
> > :-)
> > 
> There's an easy way to be convinced of the existance of God (at a
> personal level, of course). Get yourself possesed and visit an exorcist
> :-).
> Seriously speaking, those things happen, and doctors can't really
> explain them.

It is an interesting phenenomen - all the more interesting because it
DON'T[1] happen here (Norway), even though there are a lot of Christian-s
here.  'Being possessed' seems to be heavily culturally dependent.

Eivind.
[1] It is very, very, very rare.