"Ian Jamieson" <ijamie at sympatico.ca> writes: > > Correct. "Religion" shrinking refers to number of people who are > > religious. Since the population is increasing, and since people here are > > coming up with whacky definitions of what "religion" means, I don't see > how > > to answer that (and it isn't a subject that intrusts me). I'm saying that > > the domain over which the superhuman and supernatural has control tends to > > get smaller as man's knowledge increases. > > Sorry, been out of the list for a while but I had to reply to this late > as it is. I think there is a certain irony implied in the fact that as we > become a more 'advanced' society we see more and more people medically > treating themselves with 'old world' techniques, i.e. acupuncture, faith > healing, healing touch, herbal remedies, etc. Is this due to lack of faith > in 'science' or 'scientific humankind' or a search for something larger, > something that can't be seen or 'logiced'. Much simpler; it's a reaction to some of the problems in the modern practice of medicine. Plus the large number of recent third-world immigrants, who bring their established habits with them. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info