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Old 01-28-2003, 02:00 PM   #135
Yorick
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Join Date: January 7, 2001
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
I can't believe you guys have spent all this time arguing over what is really seen, academically, as a simple distinction: "hard" sciences and "soft" or "social" sciences. My college had three "divisions." Div. 1 was "arts," Division 3 was "sciences" (math, physics, chemistry, biology), and the middle division, divison 2, was "soft" or social sciences (economics, sociology, religion). Isn't that really what we're talking about?
That's what I've been saying Timber.

But it's more than that. Accepting theology as a science clearly involves something more for those who don't. Whatever it is I don't understand it.
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