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02-26-2011 4:00 PM 		Reply to: Message 113 by slevesque
02-26-2011 1:40 PM

Re: The foundations of Modern Science
even though the the concept of a creating God is absent from their culture.
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What? Why would you think that?
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The Japanese word for "God" is "Kami-sama", roughly "honored ghost". Japan has been visited by Christian missionaries since the 16th century, and exposed to Western thought since 1400 or so. Why would the notion of a "creator God" be absent from their culture?
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